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Date: | Tuesday 13 June 1944 |
Time: | 01:43 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | DV286 |
MSN: | BH-C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | IJsselmeer 3 km S of Wijdenes, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Faldingworth UK |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Faldingworth at 23:20 hrs for a bombing operation against the Nordstern synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen in Germany.
Homeward-bound, as it crossed the Dutch Coast, crashed on fire after being intercepted by night fighter pilot Leutnant Gottfried Hanneck of the 6./NJG 1, who had taken off from Deelen airfield in a Bf 110 G-4.
Plt Off Morski (Polish Air Force) PAF was rescued by two Dutch fishermen and later transferred to a German Naval vessel. Sgt Bladowski PAF was washed ashore and he was initially laid to rest in Wijdenes Cemetery, though his grave is now in the Polish Field of Honour at Breda. The others who died are commemorated on the Northolt Memorial. Plt Off Morski was later to have published an account of this loss in Nowy Dzennik, New York on Thursday 14 November 1996:
flt Sgt F Rembecki PAF (KIA)
Sgt F S Bladowski PAF (KIA)
Plt Off I J Feil PAF (KIA)
Plt Off B F Morski PAF (POW)
Flt Sgt J Borros PAF (KIA)
Sgt S Mistzturak PAF (KIA)
Sgt W B Leppert PAF (KIA)
** 9 Halifax and 5 Stirlings minelaying off Brest and St-Nazaire, 13 aircraft on Resistance operations. No aircraft were lost.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3776&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
http://www.lancaster-archive.com http://www.arg1940-1945.nl/bergingen_lancaster_dv286.htm Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second world War 1944 Page 275.
http://www.polishwargraves.nl/bred/bhc.htm http://www.arg1940-1945.nl/engels/lancaster%20bh-c%20pagina%201gb.htm http://www.arg1940-1945.nl/engels/lancaster%20bh-c%20pagina%201gb%20-%20copy.htm https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.wargraves.nl/graven/nieuws/20031023-ambaspol.html&prev=search *Luftwaffe Night Fighter Combat Claims 1939-1945.
**The Bomber Command War Diaries 1939-1945
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Revision history:
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17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
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06-Jan-2009 10:21 |
Anon. |
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27-Feb-2011 13:13 |
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15-Jun-2016 15:08 |
Red Dragon |
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15-Jun-2016 17:51 |
Red Dragon |
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17-Feb-2018 17:13 |
Nepa |
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05-Feb-2020 15:31 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
05-Oct-2020 18:35 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
05-Oct-2020 18:37 |
TigerTimon |
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15-Jun-2022 19:35 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |