ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52404
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Date: | Sunday 20 December 1942 |
Time: | 19:25 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 103 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W4334 |
MSN: | PM-R |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Eilandspolder, Graft, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Elsham Wolds |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Target: Duisburg
Takeoff time: 18:13
Outward-bound, the aircraft was hit by Flak of the 1. and 2./gemischte Flak-Abteilung 242 (v).
Remains were found during excavation in 1952. All seven crew members rest in the Bergen op Zoom RCAF cemetery (Noord-Brabant):
Pilot W/O. II L.E. Moriarty R/87814 RCAF
Flight Engineer Sgt. E. Airey 634671 RAF
Navigator F/Sgt. P.E. Poulson 1250821 RAF
Bomb Aimer Sgt. R.O. Eynon 655819 RAF
Wireless Operator/ Air Gunner W/O. II J.H. Love R/95024 RCAF
Mid Upper Gunner F/Sgt. T. Bennett 1378737 RAF
Rear Gunner Sgt. A.E. Brown 1027778 RAF
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1960&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
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17 June 1943 |
ED945 |
103 Sqn RAF |
7 |
near Hal 19, Esch, NE of Boxtel, Noord-Brabant |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
19-Dec-2017 17:24 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
16-Oct-2018 18:56 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Operator] |
12-Nov-2020 18:15 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Cn, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
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