Date:	Wednesday 30 August 1944
Time:	00:22 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	460 Sqn RAAF
Registration:	NE144
MSN:	AR-F2
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	sea of Kattegat off the island of Anholt -   Denmark
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Binbrook
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 21:06 hrs for an operation against Stettin; crashed into Kattegatt Sea.
The aircraft was intercepted by Oberleutnant Fritz Brandt of the Stab II./NJG 3, who was flying a Junkers Ju 88G.
4 survived. 2 buried in Falkenberg (Halland), 1 on Anholt:

Fg Off K W Humphries RAAF (PoW)
Sgt S R Wild (PoW)
Fg Off J B MacNeill RCAF (PoW)
Sgt G D Walsh (PoW)
Fg Off R K Stratford DFM (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt D Fallon (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt P B Aviet (KIlled On Active Service)

Only one body found, 8.9.44 on Falkenberg beach (Halland).

- Falkenbergs Museum/Lars Wikander: De kom aldrog hem (1994)
- Wikander, Lars et al: Flygdramatik i Halland under andra världskriget (1995)
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft NA100 - NZ999, published 1992

Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 405.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
http://www.flensted.eu.com/1944124.shtml
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=NE144&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-Sep-2011 05:00	Uli Elch	Added
13-Sep-2011 06:09	Uli Elch	Updated [Departure airport]
04-Jul-2016 16:12	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
23-Oct-2018 14:08	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
17-Jun-2021 18:15	TigerTimon	Updated [Date, Time, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative]
17-Jun-2021 18:20	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, Country, Source, Narrative]