Date:	Thursday 22 June 1944
Time:	01:06 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF
Registration:	LM592
MSN:	KM-Q
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Walik, Riethoven, Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Dunholme Lodge
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Dunholme Lodge at 22:57 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling.

Outward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hermann Leube of the 4./NJG 3, who had taken off from Eindhoven airfield at 00:35 hrs, in Junkers Ju 88 G-1 D5+KM; sent down to explode twixt the village of Riethoven and the nearby town of Valkenswaard. All are buried in Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery:

Plt off E A Canty RAAF (KIA)
Sgt R E Clay (KIA)
Fg Off J R Vowles RAAF (KIA)
Sgt E Norris (KIA)
Plt Off W M Crook (KIA)
Sgt E G Scott (KIA)
Sgt L J P McCoy RAAF (KIA)
A Memorial has been provided by Riethoven community at Walik crash site dedicated 22 June 2019.

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3830&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 291.
Relative of L J P McCoy who attended the dedication on 22 June 2019.

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

20 September 1942	R5554	44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF	4	Forêt de Mormal forest, Locquignol municipality, département du Nord		w/o
21 December 1942	W4125	44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF	5	Bad Rappenau, Baden-Württemberg		w/o
22 June 1943	LM330	44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF	8	North Sea poss off Friesland		w/o
16 July 1944	PB206	44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF	7	North Sea 40 km west of Nymindegab (Syddanmark) (claim location)		mis

Photo at Walik of Memorial with crash site behind. Taken 22 June 2019

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
27-Dec-2011 03:53	Uli Elch	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
19-Jun-2016 16:12	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
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07-May-2020 07:18	Rustyrooster	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, Photo]
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