Accident Avro Lancaster Mk I ED569,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51667
 
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Date:Tuesday 29 June 1943
Time:03:07 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:207 Sqn RAF
Registration: ED569
MSN: EM-B
Fatalities:Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Hoornseweg, Wognum, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Langar UK
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Werner Husemann of the Stab/NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Deelen airfield.

Target: Köln, Germany
Takeoff time: 23:10
Crew:
Pilot F/O. P.C.D. Russell J/12826 RAF Wognum 13A
Flight engineer Sgt. V.H.J. Watkins 536785 RAF Wognum 13A
Navigator F/O. F.E. Fielding 132145 RAF Wognum 13A
Navigator Sgt. A.W. Richardson 1315873 RAF Wognum 13A
Wo ag Sgt. D. Scragg 1081067 RAF Wognum 13A
Air gunner Sgt. W.W.R. Cook 1174531 RAF Wognum 13A
Air gunner Sgt. J.T. Lloyd 1586374 RAF Wognum 13A

The deceased crew is buried at Wognum, the Netherlands, in a united grave.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2624&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Verliesregister 1943, p. 73.

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
21 January 1944 R5895 207 Sqn RAF 7 outskirts of Dannigkow, Gommern, Sachsen-Anhalt w/o
16 November 1944 NF979 207 Sqn RAF 7 Schenkelstraße, Düren, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
4 December 1944 PB765 207 Sqn RAF 3 Holtzwihr, Porte du Ried, Haut-Rhin département w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
23-Oct-2014 15:09 gerard57 Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Nov-2018 20:36 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
19-Nov-2018 17:53 Nepa Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]

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