ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 173872
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| Date: | Wednesday 22 March 1944 |
| Time: | 21:45 |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 426 (Thunderbird) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | LL647 |
| MSN: | OW-R |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Greffen, Harsewinkel, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse |
Took off from RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 19:01 hrs for a bombing operation against Frankfurt in Hessen. Outward-bound, intercepted at 20,000 feet over the Ruhr by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Ludwig Meister, Feldwebel Hans Forke & Feldwebel Anton Werzinski of the 1./NJG 4 (flying Bf 110 G-4 3C+TJ from Florennes airfield in Belgium) and crashed near Greffen, a small town 17 km NW of Gütersloh. Those who perished now rest in the Reichswald War Cemetery:
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Harold Grover Wright RCAF J/85531 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Lawrence Pearson RAFVR 1296342 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Harold Hugh Gray RCAF J/88147 : Commission Gazetted Friday 20 December, 1940) [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Hugh Fissette MacDonald RCAF 27393 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Flying Officer William John Burrows RCAF J/12045 [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flying Officer Earl Kitchener Sears RCAF J/14814 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer John William MacLean RCAF J/88874 [Killed]
Sources:
http://www.spurensuche-owl.de/front_content.php?idart=141
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 126.
http://aircrewremembered.com/wright-harold.html
http://pmcgovern.ca/wp/?p=96
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.spurensuche-owl.de/front_content.php%3Fidart%3D141&prev=search
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
Bing Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Feb-2015 14:40 | gerard57 | Added |
| 25-May-2015 18:45 | Zeeland | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport] |
| 07-Jun-2016 20:47 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Apr-2021 10:31 | TigerTimon | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Apr-2021 11:21 | TigerTimon | Updated [Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 22-Mar-2024 07:51 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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