ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50277
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| Date: | Friday 21 July 1944 |
| Time: | 01:45 |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ND913 |
| MSN: | A4-M2 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Oosteind hamlet, Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Witchford |
Took off from RAF Witchford at 22:30 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil installation at Meerbeck in Germany.
While flying home, 'Popeye' was intercepted by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Hanneck, Unteroffizier Sacher & Unteroffizier Glöckner of the 5./NJG 1, who had taken off from Deelen airfield at 00:01 hrs, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+QP.
The Lanc crashed 01:45 at Papendrecht, on the north bank of the Merwede river and opposite Dordrecht. All are buried in the general cmetery at Papendrecht:
Fg Off C M Clarey RAAF (KIA)
Sgt H C Luton (KIA)
Sgt E J Line (KIA)
Flt S E Kirkland (KIA)
Sgt D Hancock (KIA)
Sgt A W Middleton (KIA)
Flt Sgt C A Barlow RAAF (KIA)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3889&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 343.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Google Maps
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.nfla.nl/ND913.html&prev=search
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 05-May-2013 23:56 | Anon. | Updated [Time] |
| 25-Jun-2016 20:29 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Oct-2018 16:33 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 22-Oct-2020 19:38 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
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