Date:	Wednesday 30 August 1944
Time:	00:48 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	50 Sqn RAF
Registration:	ED588
MSN:	VN-G
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Höjalen, 4km W Vittsjö, 21 km NNW Hässleholm (Skane) -   Sweden
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Skellingthorpe
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 20:58 hrs for an operation against Königsberg, caught fire and crashed in Sweden.
The aircraft was intercepted by Major Werner Husemann of the Stab I./NJG 3, who had taken off from Schleswig airfield (Germany) at 23:20 hrs, in Junkers Ju 88G D5+XB.
Pre crash fire with explosion. With 126 missions, ED588 run out of luck and crashed with full bomb load in Sweden. Crew buried in Pålsjö Cemetery, Helsingborg:

Fg Off A H Carver (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt R H Clifford (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt F G Plowman (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt D A MacDonald RCAF (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt E Mutch (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt W R Campbell (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt R W Bysouth (Killed On Active Service)

- Falkenbergs Museum/Lars Wikander: De kom aldrog hem (1994)
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft EA100 - EZ999, published 2010
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/carver-anthony.html info and photos
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 401.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four

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R5735

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field near Winnekendonk, Kevelaer, Nordrhein-Westfalen

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-Sep-2011 03:20	Uli Elch	Added
28-Dec-2011 15:03	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative]
26-Feb-2014 11:43	Masen63	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]
04-Jul-2016 15:47	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
12-Nov-2018 18:51	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
17-Jun-2021 18:35	TigerTimon	Updated [Date, Time, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative]