Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III ED806,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52029
 
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Date:Friday 9 April 1943
Time:23:25
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:9 Sqn RAF
Registration: ED806
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Kleinwijk, Nistelrode, Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Shot down by night fighter pilot Major Werner Streib of the Stab I/NJG 1, flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+DB from Venlo airfield.

Target: Duisburg
Call Sign: WS-L
Takeoff time: 20:45
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Arthur Frederick Paramore RAFVR 127031 (NCO:742584 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 25 August, 1942) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Thomas Hughes RAFVR 1368747 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Eric Hesketh RAFVR 124703 (NCO:1438159 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 18 August, 1942) [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Alan Maxwell Coulthard RAFVR 1147868 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant David Henry Mactier RAFVR 1365036 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Ronald Douglas Benning RAFVR 1531878 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Ronald Douglas Wood RAFVR 655224 [Killed]

All lie at the Uden War Cemetery.

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2185&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
09-Apr-2018 11:45 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
03-Nov-2018 19:38 Nepa Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]
09-Apr-2024 07:05 Rob Davis Updated [Source, Narrative]

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