ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50334
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 1944 |
| Time: | 02:32 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 49 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ND683 |
| MSN: | EA-K |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea off Walcheren, Zeeland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Fiskerton |
Took off from RAF Fiskerton at 23:11 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Martin Drewes of the Stab III./NJG 1, who had left Leeuwarden at the controls of a Bf 110 G-4 at 00:46 hrs; crashed in the sea off the coast of Zeeland.
Four bodies were later washed in by the tides and now rest in various Dutch cemeteries. The others are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. Plt Off Shinn had been involved in a crash in March while engaged on operations to Essen:
Plt Off Shinn DFC (KIA)Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery
Sgt N G V Pettit (KIA) Runnymede Memorial
Fg Off J B Stanley (KIA)Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery
WO2 V C Cully RCAF (KIA)Runnymede Memorial
Sgt S Hawes (KIA)Westduin Cemetery The Hague (Den Haag)
Sgt A E Dicken (KIA)Hoek Van Holland General Cemetery
Sgt A Armstrong (KIA)Runnymede Memorial
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3834&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses in the Second World War 1944 Page 292.
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 10 August 1943 | ED719 | 49 Sqn RAF | 0 | near Erfenbach, Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz |  |
w/o |
| 23 May 1944 | NE125 | 49 Sqn RAF | 7 | Crashed in a peat-bog 1km South of Hagen | |
w/o |
| 21 November 1944 | PB300 | 49 Sqn RAF | 6 | wooded area at Hörstel, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 21-Jun-2016 09:25 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Jun-2016 11:35 | Red Dragon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 30-Oct-2018 04:54 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 15-Oct-2020 19:55 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Jun-2022 16:31 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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