ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50279
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| Date: | Friday 21 July 1944 |
| Time: | 01:16 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 514 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ME858 |
| MSN: | JI-J |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Schansstraat road, Hunsel, Limburg -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridge |
Took off from RAF Waterbeach at 23:07 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil installation at Meerbeck in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Gustav Sarzio of the 6./NJG 1, who had taken off from Deelen airfield in a Bf 110 G-4.
The Lancaster crashed roughly 1 km SW of Hunsel, where all were buried in the Roman Catholic Churchyard, small village close to the Belgian border and 10 km SE of the Dutch town of Weert:
Fg Off D Miller (KIA)
Sgt N Derham (KIA)
Fg Off D O Brown RCAF (KIA)
Sgt H M Glansford (KIA)
Sgt G H Holt (KIA)
Sgt W E Blore (KIA)
Sgt H E Long (KIA)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 344.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/millar-douglas.html
http://balfour.rbe.sk.ca/archives_browndo
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.4en5mei.nl/herdenken-en-vieren/oorlogsmonumenten/monumenten_zoeken/oorlogsmonument/3374/hunsel,%27-lancaster-monument%27&prev=search
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3891&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 25-Jun-2016 13:48 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Oct-2018 14:46 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 22-Oct-2020 17:25 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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