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Date: | Wednesday 19 July 1944 |
Time: | 02:20 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PB171 |
MSN: | BH-K |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea off Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Faldingworth UK |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Faldingworth at 23:15 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Walter Briegleb of the 10./NJG 3, who was flying a Junkers Ju 88 G-1 from Düsseldorf airfield in Germany.
All are commemorated on the Northolt Memorial. Most were engaged on their 28th sortie. This aircraft was manned by an all Polish crew:
WO J Zoltanski (KIA)
Flt Lt S Ostaszewski (KIA)
Flt Sgt S Szychowski (KIA)
Fg Off J J Bregman (KIA)
Flt Sgt F Janicki (KIA)
Flt Sgt I Ratajczak (KIA)
Flt Sgt S J Mamak (KIA)
WO S Stysiak (KIA)
Sources:
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 334.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/zoltanski-josef.html Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
13 June 1944 |
LL807 |
300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
7 |
IJsselmeer near Urk, Overijssel |
|
w/o |
29 January 1945 |
PB846 |
300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
3 |
Berneck |
|
w/o |
8 January 1946 |
NG269 |
300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
4 |
Normanby-le-Wold, West Lindsay, Lincolnshire, England |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Aug-2013 13:40 |
JINX |
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19-Feb-2015 17:53 |
Jixon |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
23-Jun-2016 15:28 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
17-Feb-2018 17:15 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport] |
05-Feb-2020 20:21 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Operator] |
19-Oct-2020 17:05 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative] |