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Date: | Tuesday 13 June 1944 |
Time: | 01:30 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 90 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LM158 |
MSN: | WP-P |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Soerense Zand at Eerbeek, Gelderland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Tuddenham |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Tuddenham at 23:31 hrs for a bombing operation against the Nordstern synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Heinz Rolland of the 12./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from an airfield in Belgium; crashed in the area known as Soerense Zand near Eerbeek (Gelderland), 10 km SW from Zutphen. Those who died were laid to rest on 15 June in Brummen (Hall) General Cemetery:
Crew:-
Pilot : F/O Albert Clark Elliott RCAF J/24955 [Killed]
F/E : Sgt Denzil Charles Kibble RAFVR 1894490 [Killed]
Nav : F/O Alexander Allan RCAF J/24713 [Killed]
B/A : F/O P C Hoffos RCAF 24647 [PoW]
W/Op : F/S Kenneth Charles Walker RAAF Aus/410927 [Killed]
M/U : Sgt David Millar Willmott RCAF R/209089 [Killed]
R/G : Sgt Eric Royston Cocker RAFVR 1880173 [Killed]
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3772&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 274.
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Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft Images:
Copy of CWGC register showing details of the 6 deceased airmen
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
27-Dec-2011 03:13 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
28-Dec-2011 14:26 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
29-Mar-2016 15:55 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative, Photo, ] |
15-Jun-2016 17:40 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
31-Oct-2018 19:44 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
05-Oct-2020 17:17 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
30-May-2022 06:11 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |