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Date: | Friday 21 July 1944 |
Time: | 01:45 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 622 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LM595 |
MSN: | GI-O |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Molenpolder, Oude-Tonge, Zuid-Holland -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Mildenhall |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Mildenhall at 23:10 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil installation at Meerbeck in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Rudolf Mangelsdorf of the 12./NJG 3, who was flying a Junkers Ju 88 G-1 from Düsseldorf airfield in Germany.
The Lanc crashed 01:45 into the Molenpolder on the island of Overflakkee near the village of Oude-Tonge.
All are buried in Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery. At 36 and 35 respectively Flt Sgt Crowther and Sgt Spaven were above the average age of airmen flying in operational capacity with Bomber Command:
Fg Off J E A Pyle (KIA)
Sgt A H Hall (KIA)
Flt Sgt P A MacGibbon (KIA)
Sgt L Tomlinson (KIA)
Flt Sgt E Crowther (KIA)
Sgt W H Pool RCAF (KIA)
Sgt J L Spaven (KIA)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3894&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 344.
http://ww2.dk/oob/bestand/njagd/bivnjg3.html https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://wingstovictory.nl/database/database_detail-du.php%3Fwtv_id%3D411&prev=search
History of this aircraft
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12 April 1945 |
PA285 |
622 Sqn RAF |
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Revision history:
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17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
27-Dec-2011 04:45 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
24-Jun-2016 17:29 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
09-Oct-2018 18:27 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
22-Oct-2020 19:30 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
22-Oct-2020 19:30 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source] |