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Date: | Thursday 17 December 1942 |
Time: | 20:22 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ED355 |
MSN: | KM-D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Waterloo at Ypecolsga, Friesland -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waddington |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - Nienburg, Germany.
The aircraft was intercepted and shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Helmut Lent & Feldwebel Walter Kubisch of the Stab IV./NJG 1, who had taken off from Leeuwarden at 19:45 hrs, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+AF; crashed onto a road between Waterloo & Harich (Friesland). The remains of the bomber were found in 1951 during road construction.
Pilot / F/Sgt. J.G. Dening AUS405576 RAAF / Jonkerbos cemetery, Gelderland
Flight Engineer / Sgt. J.A. Callan 567483 RAF / Jonkerbos cemetery, Gelderland
Navigator / F/O. M.A. Nias 120242 RAF / Jonkerbos cemetery, Gelderland
Bomb Aimer / Sgt. G.B. Wilkinson 1319418 RAF / Ypecolsga cemetery
Wireless Operator / Sgt. L.G. Powell 1359999 RAF / Jonkerbos cemetery, Gelderland
Mid Upper Gunner / F/Sgt. W.M.J. Stark R/92640 RCAF / Jonkerbos cemetery, Gelderland
Rear Gunner / F/Sgt. E. Croal AUS411996 RAAF / Ypecolsga cemetery
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1951&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Bomber Command Losses 1942 William Chorley
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
04-Jun-2010 00:46 |
Snowy |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
04-Jun-2010 00:50 |
Snowy |
Updated [Narrative] |
13-Apr-2015 15:25 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |
15-Dec-2017 11:26 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
30-Oct-2018 04:34 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Operator] |
06-Nov-2020 19:13 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |