ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50028
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| Date: | Tuesday 19 September 1944 |
| Time: | 23:05 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 619 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | PB405 |
| MSN: | PG-S |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | between Roggel and Heythuysen, Limburg -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Dunholme Lodge, Lincolnshire |
| Monchengladbach |
Takeoff at 19:04 hrs for a bombing operation against München-Gladbach/Rheydt in Germany.
The aircraft was claimed shot down by the night fighter pilots Oberleutnant Lau (4./NJG 1), Hauptmann Greiner (11./NJG 1) and Hauptmann Hissbach (5./NJG 2). All three claims were subsequently confirmed by the OKL/RLM Abschusskommission.
All eight men rest in the Venray War Cemetery
Pilot: 176559 Fg Off Leslie William Leonard - Venray War Cemetery Plot V Row A Collective Grave 10-11. (NCO:1317968 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 27 June, 1944)
Flight Engineer: 1398317 Sgt Donald John Carter - Venray War Cemetery Plot V Row A Collective Grave 10-11.
Navigator: 1317991 Flt Sgt John Montague Davies - Venray War Cemetery Plot V Row A Collective Grave 10-11.
Bomb Aimer: 1610176 Flt Sgt John William Charles Mabbutt - Venray War Cemetery Plot V Row A Collective Grave 10-11.
2nd Bomb Aimer: 1549518 Flt Sgt Joseph Kenneth Stobbs - Venray War Cemetery Plot V Row A
Collective Grave 10-11.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1077210 WO James Webster - Venray War Cemetery Plot V Row A Collective Grave 10-11.
Mid Upper Gunner: 1835421 Sgt William Johnson - Venray War Cemetery Plot V Row A Collective Grave 10-11.
Rear Gunner: 2220532 Sgt John Rennie Sutherland - Venray War Cemetery Plot V Row A Collective Grave 10-11.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4157&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
Google Maps
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
CWGC
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 June 1944 | ND986 | 619 Sqn RAF | 7 | Rhine river at Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen |  |
w/o |
| 24 July 1944 | PB208 | 619 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea, probably southwest of the island of Sylt | |
w/o |
| 6 November 1944 | LM742 | 619 Sqn RAF | 2 | Wettringen, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Aug-2013 06:12 | JINX | Updated [Date, Operator, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Jan-2016 10:02 | JIXN | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 09-Mar-2021 12:14 | TigerTimon | Updated [Date, Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-Aug-2023 17:42 | Anon. | Updated [[Date, Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]] |
| 19-Sep-2023 07:04 | Rob Davis | Updated [[[Date, Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]]] |
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