ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50290
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| Date: | Friday 21 July 1944 |
| Time: | 01:59 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 514 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | HK570 |
| MSN: | JI-P |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea off Renesse, Zeeland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridge |
Took off from RAF Waterbeach 23:13 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil installation at Meerbeck in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was claimed shot down by Hauptmann Heinz-Martin Hadeball of the 3./Nachtjagdgruppe 10 and by Hauptmann Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow of the 1./NJG 1 (flying He 219 A-0 G9+AH from Venlo airfield).
The Lanc crashed 01:59 in the sea off the Dutch coast. Sgt Taylor was washed up on 21 July at Renesse (Zeeland), 14 km NW from Zierikzee. He now rests in Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery. The others are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial:
WO J L Lassam (KIA)
Flt Sgt E J Hack (KIA)
Sgt W C Taylor (KIA)
Flt Sgt A R Hope (KIA)
Sgt W J Anthony (KIA)
Sgt D P Manchul RCAF (KIA)
Sgt B H Cooper RCAF (KIA)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3890&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 343.
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://wingstovictory.nl/database/database_detail.php%3Fwtv_id%3D410&prev=search
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 20 December 1943 | DS817 | 514 Sqn RAF | 6 | near Berndroth, Rheinland-Pfalz |  |
w/o |
| 30 June 1944 | PB178 | 514 Sqn RAF | 5 | Pittsham Farm near Midhurst, Sussex |  |
w/o |
| Mid-air collision | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 06-Jan-2009 10:21 | larry617 | Updated |
| 24-Jun-2016 14:25 | Anon. | Updated [Cn, Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Oct-2018 14:45 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 23-Oct-2020 07:38 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
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