ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50546
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| Date: | Thursday 27 April 1944 |
| Time: | 02:18 |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | DS719 |
| MSN: | EQ-U |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Oosterschelde, near Wissenkerke, Zeeland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse |
Took off from RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 23:12 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 in the Oosterschelde off Wissenkerke (Zeeland) on Beveland.
Sgt Gilbert is buried in Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery; Sgt Hendry RCAF lies in Wissenkerke General Cemetery and four are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. 1Lt Shove USAAF now rests in his home state of Connecticut, brought here by the way of Wissenkerke and the US Military Cemetery at Margraten:
Fg Off E R Rognan RCAF (KIA)
Sgt J H Gilbert (KIA)
1Lt F S Shove USAAF (KIA) / Evergreen Cemetery Watertown Litchfield County Connecticut, USA
Flt Sgt G F Butson RCAF (KIA)
WO1 J M Potter RCAF (KIA)
Sgt R E Hendry RCAF (KIA)
Sgt D T Greatrex RCAF (KIA)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3627&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 192.
* Luftwaffe Night Fighter Combat Claims 1939-1945.
https://www.findagrave.com/page=gr&GSln=Shove&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1944&GSdyrel=in&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=19863749&df=all&
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 October 1943 | DS778 | 408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF | 7 | Lavelsloh, Diepenau, Niedersachsen |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 10-Jun-2016 18:49 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Oct-2018 17:51 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 04-Apr-2020 19:45 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Jun-2022 10:44 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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