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Date: | Saturday 19 August 1944 |
Time: | 01:34 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 7 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PB148 |
MSN: | MG-C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Overdie polder at Alkmaar, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | Sterkrade, Duisburg |
Narrative:It took off from its base at Oakington, near Cambridge, at 23:04 18/08/1944. It was of a force of 214 aircraft (196 Halifaxes, 10 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitos) that was sent to attack a synthetic oil plant at Sterkrade, just north of Duisburg, and they bombed their target between 00:45 and 01:16 on 19/08/1944. The air ministry daily summary issued on 20/08/1944 stated that a Halifax and Lancaster were both missing.
The missing aircraft was PB148 and that as a pathfinder, it would have been one of the earliest in the target area and given its crash location* it was presumably on its home bound journey. All are buried in Holland at Bergen General Cemetery.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Patrick George McCarthy DFC RAFVR 173522 [Killed] (NCO:1318114 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 02 May, 1944)
Flight Engineer : Flight Sergeant John Charles Gay RAFVR 1436052 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Alan Bright Hargrave RAFVR 178830 [Killed] (NCO:256139 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 22 August, 1944)
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Kenneth Stanway Carr RAFVR 145812 [Killed] (NCO:1238315 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 06 July, 1943)
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Michael Stuart Layton-Smith RAFVR 183715 [Killed] (NCO:1322671 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 10 October, 1944)
Wireless Operator : Pilot Officer Frederick Charles Allford RAFVR 178946 [Killed] (NCO:1126167 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 22 August, 1944)
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Ernest Arthur Batterbee RAFVR 1873692 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer Basil Farrel Blatchford RAFVR 178645 [Killed] (NCO:1189754 Commission Gazetted : Saturday 15 July, 1944)
Oberleutnant Hans-Peter Schickling (7./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4) claimed a four engined aircraft 5-20 km W of IJmuiden (GJ3)(3,200m) at 01:34 hrs. This has been identified as 7 Squadron Lancaster PB148.
Sources:
http://www.soerensezand.nl/verliesregister-1944.pdf Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 389.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
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Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
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JINX |
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03-Jul-2016 15:19 |
Red Dragon |
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12-Nov-2018 16:57 |
Nepa |
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05-Sep-2020 12:38 |
Anon. |
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05-Sep-2020 12:40 |
harro |
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05-Mar-2021 13:21 |
TigerTimon |
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07-May-2022 16:14 |
Rob Davis |
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06-Jan-2024 15:41 |
Rob Davis |
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