Date:	Thursday 22 June 1944
Time:	02:20 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	630 Sqn RAF
Registration:	LM118
MSN:	LE-V
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Lennisheuvel, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF East Kirkby
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF East Kirby at 23:17 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling in Germany.

Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Heinrich Küseling of the 12./NJG 3, who was flying a Junkers Ju 88 G-1 from Köln-Butzweilerhof airfield in Germany; crashed 4 km S of Boxtel, 8 km ENE of Oisterwijk.
All lie in Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery. Sgt Kimberley had attended Sparkhill Commercial School in Birmingham:

Crew:-
Pilot : P/O John Henry George Smith RAFVR 175502 (NCO:1602443) [Killed]
F/E : Sgt Ian Alistair Place RAFVR 1867724 [Killed]
Nav : Sgt Robert Edward Duck RAFVR 1578790 [Killed]
B/A : F/O Norman Bunker Wilcock RAFVR 144458 (NCO:1012433) [Killed]
W/Op/AG : Sgt John Kenneth Kimberley RAFVR 1581438 [Killed]
M/U : Sgt Eric Stanley Worden RAFVR 1589759 [Killed]
R/G : Sgt Henry George Kember RAFVR 1814573 [Killed]

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3845&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
http://ww2.dk/oob/bestand/njagd/bivnjg3.html

- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991

Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 295.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

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16 March 1944

ND583

630 Sqn RAF

7

2 km S of Besmé, Aisne 02

w/o

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17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
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