ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50778
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| Date: | Saturday 25 March 1944 |
| Time: | 00:30 |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 97 (Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | JB671 |
| MSN: | OF-A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Luyksgestel, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Bourn, Cambridgeshire |
Took off from RAF Bourn at 18:55. Homebound, crashed at Luyksgestel (Noord-Brabant), 11 km SE of Bladel and practically on the Dutch/Belguim border. The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Achim Woeste of the Stab III./NJG 3, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Stade airfield in Germany.
All rest in Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery. Plt Off Coates had won an immediate DFM, Gazetted 7 January 1944, for his tenacity during a raid on Berlin in the December 1943:
Plt Off W D Coates DFM (KIA)
Sgt B H Nicholas (KIA)
Flt Sgt S Nuttall (KIA)
Plt Off J M Baldwin RCAF (KIA)
Sgt W Chapman (KIA)
Sgt W L York (KIA)
Sgt F Thompson (KIA)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3550&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 131.
http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/u/r/Terina-S-Hurley/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0096.html
http://ww2.dk/oob/bestand/njagd/biiinjg3.html
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 2 June 1942 | R5571 | 97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF | 7 | Henrichenburg, Castrop-Rauxel, Nordrhein-Westfalen |  |
w/o |
| 27 January 1943 | W4135 | 97 (Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF | 2 | Maarheeze, SE of Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant | |
w/o |
| 23 September 1943 | ED868 | 97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF | 7 | Ruchheim, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz | |
w/o |
| 22 November 1943 | JB238 | 97 (Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF | 3 | Gellenbeck, Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 08-Jun-2016 16:08 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Nov-2018 15:20 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 10-Nov-2018 22:43 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 28-Mar-2020 21:33 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Mar-2020 21:34 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
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