Date:	Thursday 22 June 1944
Time:	night
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	57 Sqn RAF
Registration:	LM573
MSN:	DX-U
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	'de Ritskampen' at Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF East Kirkby
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF East Kirby at 23:10 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling.

Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by a night fighter, probably in the hands of Obergefreiter Hans Mäckle of the 7./NJG 2, who had taken off from Volkel airfield in a Junkers Ju 88 ('Lancaster' Tilburg-Volkel (KL-KM): 5.200 m. 01:10 hrs).
Six of the crew did not survive. Their graves are now located in Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery. Both air gunners were aged 19 years:

Crew:-
Pilot : P/O N R Carr RAAF [PoW]
F/E : Sgt Ernest Edward James Harris RAFVR 1582210 [Killed]
Nav : P/O Ronald George Odden RAFVR 179200 (NCO:1187872) [Killed]
B/A : F/O Angus John Black RCAF J/24704 [Killed]
W/Op : P/O Samuel Ewart RAFVR 179609 (NCO:1123745) [Killed]
M/U : Sgt Jacky Ratcliffe RAFVR 2209639 [Killed]
R/G : Sgt Kenneth Thomas Robbins RAFVR 1852263 [Killed]

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3836&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
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- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991

Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 292.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/norman-carr.html
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
27-Dec-2011 04:01	Uli Elch	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
19-Jun-2016 15:01	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
07-Nov-2018 19:05	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
12-Oct-2020 16:50	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative]
12-Oct-2020 16:52	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative]
22-Jun-2022 19:49	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]