ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50326
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| Date: | Wednesday 28 June 1944 |
| Time: | 01:10 claim |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ME743 |
| MSN: | KM-G |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | English Channel - |
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Dunholme Lodge |
Took off from RAF Dunholme Lodge at 22:57 hrs to attack a flying-bomb (Crossbow) site at Marquise in the Pas-de-Calais département.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberstleutnant Helmut Lent, Kommodore of NJG 3, who had taken off from Le Culot (Belgium) at 23:43 hrs in Junkers Ju 88G D5+AA; crashed into the sea.
Six are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, but Sergeant Thomas was taken northwards by the tides and on 7 September 1944, was washed onto Terschelling in the Dutch Frisian islands. He lies in Terschelling General Cemetery:
Flt Lt F X Merrick (KIA)
Sgt R D J C Carling (KIA)
Fg Off J Poulter (KIA)
Fg Off R N Bartlett RCAF (KIA)
Sgt C Dickenson (KIA)
Sgt H P Warll RCAF (KIA)
Sgt J W Thomas (KIA)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3847&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 305.
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.aerosteles.net/stelefr-mimoyecques-lancasterme74&prev=search
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 9 May 1942 | R5557 | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF | 8 | Missing - North Sea |  |
mis |
| 6 October 1942 | W4188 | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF | 7 | Rehmstraße street, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 13 May 1943 | W4305 | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF | 6 | 3 km south of Hörstel, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 4 September 1943 | DV155 | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF | 6 | Buskow, Neuruppin, Brandenburg | |
w/o |
| 13 September 1944 | PD267 | 207 Sqn RAF | 7 | Crashed 23:00 at Birkenstrasse 22, Stuttgart | |
w/o |
| 4 December 1944 | PB751 | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF | 0 | Brettach, Baden-Württemberg | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 21-Jun-2016 11:21 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Oct-2018 04:41 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 16-Oct-2020 07:06 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Nov-2020 13:12 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 15-Nov-2020 13:39 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
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