ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50336
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 1944 |
| Time: | 02:20 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 207 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ME827 |
| MSN: | EM-I |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Moerstraatsebaan, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Spilsby |
Tookoff from RAF Spilsby at 23:32 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling in Germany.
Homeward-bound, engaged by Flak of the 1.-4./gemischte Flak-Abteilung 295 (and possibly a Bf 110 G-4 in the hands of Hauptmann Breves of Stab IV./NJG 1); crashed on the Moestraatsebaan at Bergen op Zoom where those who died are buried in the Canadian section of the local war cemetery:
Flt Lt F W Gallagher DSO (KIA)
Sgt M B Millward (KIA)
WO A Young (POW)
Sgt R W Lloyd (KIA)
Flt Sgt R P Scott (KIA)
Fg Off P W Ball (KIA)
Sgt K Waddington (KIA)
Flt Sgt M Sherman RCAF (KIA)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3843&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 294.
http://aircrewremembered.com/gallagher-frederick.html
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Google Maps
http://www.leatherheadweb.org.uk/warmemorials/millward_mb_220644.htm
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 February 1945 | PB295 | 207 Sqn RAF | 5 | Bocholt |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 20-Jun-2016 21:35 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Nov-2018 09:09 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 15-Oct-2020 19:23 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Oct-2020 19:26 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
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