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Date: | Tuesday 13 June 1944 |
Time: | 01:30 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LL807 |
MSN: | BH-K |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | IJsselmeer near Urk, Overijssel -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Faldingworth UK |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Faldingworth at 23:16 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 Ewald-Werner Hittler of the 3./NJG 1, who was flying a Heinkel He 219 A-0 from Venlo airfield; plunged into the IJsselmeer.
Five now lie in Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery; Sgt Szeliga PAF is buried at Elburg, Sgt Pacula PAF has no known grave. All, of course are commemorated on the Polish Air force Memorial at Northolt:
Flt Lt J W Rozanski PAF (KIA)
Sgt M G Szeliga PAF (KIA)
Fg Off M Hahn PAF (KIA)
Fg Off W Bakun PAF (KIA)
Sgt A Pacula PAF (KIA)
flt Sgt M Wroblewski PAF (KIA)
Sgt R Barzdo PAF (KIA)
Sources:
http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1944%20sec_tcm5-7285.pdf http://www.lancaster-archive.com
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World war 1944 Page 275.
http://www.teunispats.nl/t3777.htm http://www.aircrewremembered.com/rozanski-jerzy.html https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3777&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
19 July 1944 |
PB171 |
300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
8 |
North Sea off Noord-Holland |
|
w/o |
29 January 1945 |
PB846 |
300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
3 |
Berneck |
|
w/o |
8 January 1946 |
NG269 |
300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
4 |
Normanby-le-Wold, West Lindsay, Lincolnshire, England |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
06-Jan-2009 10:21 |
larry617 |
Updated |
27-Dec-2011 03:31 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Phase, Source, Narrative] |
27-Dec-2011 03:31 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
28-Dec-2011 14:26 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Source] |
15-Jun-2016 16:49 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
17-Feb-2018 17:14 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport] |
05-Feb-2020 15:31 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
05-Oct-2020 17:02 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
15-Jun-2022 17:03 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
17-Jun-2022 21:33 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |