ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50343
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 1944 |
| Time: | 01:15 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 106 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LM570 |
| MSN: | ZN-Z |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Rossum, Gelderland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Metheringham |
Took off from RAF Methering at 23:15 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Josef Nabrich & Feldwebel Fritz Habicht of the 3./NJG 1, who had taken off from Venlo airfield at around 00:40 hrs, in a Heinkel He 219 A-0; crashed at Rossum, a village on the south bank of the Waal and to the west of the Maas, 12 km SW of Tiel. Seven of the crew are buried in Uden War Cemetery; Sgt Scott now lies in the Canadian War Cemetery at Groesbeek:
Fg Off K G Bellingham (KIA)
Sqdn Ldr A J Loughborough (KIA)
Sgt J W Blanchard (KIA)
Flt Sgt H Gavin RAAF (KIA)
Flt Sgt L Toomey RAAF (KIA)
Sgt A Goodacre (KIA)
Sgt S J Malaband (KIA)
Sgt C E Scott RCAF (KIA)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3841&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 290.
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Dec-2011 04:05 | Uli Elch | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 19-Jun-2016 14:44 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Oct-2018 21:05 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 12-Oct-2020 17:31 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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