ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 138393
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Date: | Saturday 31 March 1945 |
Time: | daytime |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 156 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PB468 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hamburg-Langenhorn, 4 km NNE Hamburg Airport -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Upwood, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Missing on mission to Hamburg, crashed in town.
Crew:-
Pilot : F/L Herbert Frederick Benson RAF 159879 (NCO:657955) [Served As] (NCO:657955 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 07 December, 1943)
Pilot : F/L Herbert Frederick Taylor DFC RAF 159879 (NCO:657955) [Killed] (NCO:657955 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 07 December, 1943)
F/E : P/O Harold Woolstenhulme RAFVR 186846 (NCO:2212874) [Killed] (NCO:2212874 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 27 March, 1945)
Nav : Sgt John Peter Williams RAFVR 1605235 [Killed]
2/Nav : Sgt Leonard Henry Joel RAFVR 1805899 [Killed]
B/A : F/O Robert Leslie Martin DFC RAFVR 175854 (NCO:1392837) [Killed] (NCO:1392837 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 20 June, 1944)
W/Op : F/O Leslie Arnold Cox DFC RAFVR 157042 (NCO:1295484) [Killed] (NCO:1295484 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 02 November, 1943)
M/U : F/S Kenneth Albert Lawrence Mitchell RAFVR 1587814 [Killed]
R/G : Sgt Robert Goldsbury RAFVR 1826652 [Killed]
Sources:
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Sep-2011 05:52 |
Uli Elch |
Added |
06-Sep-2011 06:01 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Source] |
07-Sep-2011 02:42 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Source] |
27-Aug-2013 13:12 |
JINX |
Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
03-Nov-2018 09:50 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
31-Mar-2022 11:55 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Narrative] |
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