Date:	Thursday 27 April 1944
Time:	02:05
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	156 Sqn RAF
Registration:	JB307
MSN:	GT-H
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Laveibosstraat road, Achtmaal, Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Upwood
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Upwood at 23:13 hrs for an operation to Essen in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the Stab IV./NJG 1, who had taken off at 01:30 hrs from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Belgium, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+DF; crashed 1 km S of Achtmaal (Noord-Brabant), 12 km SE of Roosendaal.
All are lie in Dutch soil at Zundert Protestant Cemetery. Sgt Manley was the son of Lt Col W G H Manley, formally of the Royal Artillery. At 36, Sgt Waller was over the average age of operational aircrew.

Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Anthony George Randall Kayll RAFVR 121553 [Killed] (NCO:933421 Commission Gazetted : Saturday 09 May, 1942)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Richard Archibald Kilgour Riddle RAF 570829 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer John Walter Charles Darvall RAFVR 151317 [Killed] (NCO:1179605 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 11 May, 1943)
Navigator : Sergeant John Dennington Manley RAFVR 1455687 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Eric Fletcher RAFVR 1515478 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Alan Beattie RAFVR 1824754 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Cyril Waller RAFVR 1585328 [Killed]

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3626&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 192.
*Luftwaffe Night Fighter Combat Claims 1939-1945.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

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w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
10-Jun-2016 19:11	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
03-Nov-2018 10:02	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Phase, Destination airport, Operator]
04-Apr-2020 19:41	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, Phase, Source, Embed code, Narrative]