ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50278
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| Date: | Friday 21 July 1944 |
| Time: | 01:45 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 75 (NZ) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ND752 |
| MSN: | AA-O |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Quirijnstokstraat street, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Mepal |
Took off from RAF Mepal at 23:30 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil installation at Meerbeck in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was claimed shot down by Hauptmann Hermann Greiner of the 11./NJG 1 (flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Belgium) and by Leutnant Bruno Heilig of the Stab IV./NJG 3 (flying a Junkers Ju 88G from Düsseldorf in Germany); crashed roughly 3 km W of Udenhout and about 6 km N from the centre of Tilburg, where those who died lie in the Gilzerbaan General Cemetery. It was a little unusual to find three Commomwealth air forces represented in single crew, especially in a Squadron built mainly around RNZAF airmen:
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Henry John Burtt RNZAF NZ/414560 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Vernon Charles Cornish RAFVR 1609419 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Vivian Connell RAAF Aus/424151 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Warrant Officer Class I Herbert John Wellington Coedy RCAF R/131043 [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Warrant Officer Gottfred Lyall Gillan RNZAF NZ/42324 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Walter Frederick Carter RAFVR 1543208 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant George Arthur Levy RAFVR 1893404 [Killed]
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3883&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 342.
http://www.tadshistory.com/WWII-003carter.html
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 21 October 1944 | HK596 | 75 (NZ) Sqn RAF | 7 | near the Zeedijkweg, Ritthem, Vlissingen, Zeeland | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 25-Jun-2016 14:16 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Oct-2018 19:46 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 22-Oct-2020 18:53 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Oct-2023 07:04 | Rob Davis | Updated [[Time, Location, Source, Narrative]] |
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