Date:	Thursday 17 August 1944
Time:	01:55 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	405 (Vancouver) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	PA988
MSN:	LQ-P
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Allindemagle on the island of Sjælland -   Denmark
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Gransden Lodge, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off at 21:00 hrs for an operation against Stettin.

When approaching the target PA988 was coned by searchlights and damaged by heavy flak rendering the ailerons 60 % u/s and the port elevator broke in two. The bomb load was dropped on Stettin by help of H2S from 18.000 ft. at 01:45 hours and the course was set for home. A little before 02:00 hours PA988 was approaching the 3rd turning point after target, over Denmark when it was attacked by Feldwebel Klaus Möller of the 12./NJG 3, who was flying a Junkers Ju 88G from Wittmund airfield in Germany.

All crew members managed to bail out, except Flight Sergeant Phil A. Musgrave who had been killed during the attack. He is burried at Svino Kirkegard, Denmark.

Pilot B.H. Walter, Navigator R.C. Wiens, Wireless Op. R.H. Rafter and Rear Gunner A.C. Budd made it to Sweden.

Air Bomber A.B. Durfee and Flight Engineer J.L. Umschied became prisoners of war.

Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
http://www.flensted.eu.com/1944098.shtml
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
Google Maps
https://www.airmen.dk/pdfs/p344MACR.pdf
faldne allierede flyvere 1939-1945 (Anders Bjørnvad)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-Aug-2013 08:25	JINX	Added
24-May-2015 20:28	Z. Zeeland	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ]
15-Jun-2021 17:05	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
15-Jun-2021 17:07	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative, ]
07-May-2024 16:46	Anon.	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
08-May-2024 17:46	Anon.	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]