ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231345
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Date: | Sunday 2 January 1944 |
Time: | 05:40-06:00 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 463 Sqn RAAF |
Registration: | W4897 |
MSN: | JO-Q |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | English Channel off Saint-Pol-sur-Mer, Dunkerque, Nord 59 -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - Berlin.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Ludwig Meister of the 1./NJG 4, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 3C+SJ from Florennes airfield in Belgium.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W4897 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
6 November 1944 |
NF990 |
463 Sqn RAAF |
2 |
road between Lotte - Tecklenburger Land; Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
4 December 1944 |
PB792 |
463 Sqn RAAF |
6 |
Le Hohwald, Bas-Rhin département |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Dec-2019 08:20 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
23-Dec-2019 08:21 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time] |
01-Jul-2022 09:46 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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