ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50512
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| Date: | Friday 12 May 1944 |
| Time: | 00:48 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 166 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ME779 |
| MSN: | AS-S |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Elkerzee hamlet, Scharendijke, Zeeland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Kirmington |
Takeoff at 22:05 hrs for an operation to the railway yards at Hasselt in Belgium.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Gottfried Hanneck of the 6./NJG 1, who had taken off from Brüssel-Melsbroek airfield in Belgium at 23:20 hrs, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+IP.
Four of the 7 crew were KIA, the other three were taken PoW:
Plt. Off. G. J. R. Clark - Pilot - reburied Bergen op Zoom
Sgt. R. J. Bond - Wireless Op. - reburied Bergen op Zoom
Sgt. H. S. D. Tulett - Mid Upper Gunner - reburied Bergen op Zoom
Sgt. L. G. Smith - Rear Gunner - reburied Bergen op Zoom
Sgt. K. Slater - Flight Engineer - POW (No 3835) - Stalag 357 Kopernikus
Flt. Sgt. P. R. A. Pool - Navigator - POW (No 3836) - Stalag 357 Kopernikus
Flt. Sgt. M. B. Brackley - Bomb Aimer - POW (No 3834) - Stalag 357 Kopernikus
The 4 crew KIA were buried first in a temporary grave in Haamstede (Zeeland) in May 1944; reburied in 1946 at Bergen Op Zoom.
Sources:
1. Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
2. https://www.raf166squadron.com/
3. https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3662&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 222.
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://wingstovictory.nl/database/database_detail-en.php%3Fwtv_id%3D388&prev=search
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 May 1944 | NE114 | 166 Sqn RAF | 5 | Mettmann, NW of Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia |  |
w/o |
| 30 August 1944 | PD261 | 166 Sqn RAF | 7 | Missing |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 26-Dec-2014 20:30 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 12-Jun-2016 13:27 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Nov-2018 18:34 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 21-Jun-2019 18:46 | Anon. | Updated [Source] |
| 07-Apr-2020 08:32 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Apr-2020 09:50 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
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