Date:	Tuesday 25 April 1944
Time:	02:28 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk II
Owner/operator:	115 Sqn RAF
Registration:	DS734
MSN:	KO-Y
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Hoeveweg, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Antwerp -   Belgium
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Witchford
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Witchford at 21:51 hrs for an operation to Karlsruhe in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the Stab IV./NJG 1, who had left St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Bf 110 G-4 G9+DF at 00:12 hrs.
Reported as crashing 3 km NE of Mechelen (Antwerpen). all were buried on 26 April at Antwerpen-Deurne, since when their bodies have been taken to Schoonselhof Cemetery:

Flt Sgt R R Cagienard (KIA)
Sgt C P Kelly (KIA)
Flt Sgt F A Foster (KIA)
Sgt J M MacLeod RCAF (KIA)
Sgt W Shorten (KIA)
Sgt A C Letcher RCAF (KIA)
Sgt F D King (KIA)

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=DS734
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http://www.bahavzw.be/database/content/lancaster-ds734-te-sint-katelijne-waver
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 187.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/cagienard-robert.html
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gec-history-illustrated-moderated/kOu729L08Do;context-place=forum/gec-history-illustrated-moderated

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

26 August 1944

PD274

115 Sqn RAF

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near Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
16-May-2014 14:31	gerard57	Added
10-Jun-2016 18:03	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
28-Oct-2018 16:32	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
03-Apr-2020 13:00	TigerTimon	Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
03-Apr-2020 13:01	TigerTimon	Updated [Time]
26-Jun-2022 02:50	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]