Date:	Saturday 29 July 1944
Time:	02:11 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PB266
MSN:	KM-S
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Wangen, Baden-Württemberg -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Dunholme Lodge
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Dunholme Lodge at 21:59 hrs for an operation against Stuttgart.
The aircraft was shot down by Oberleutnant Hans-Heinz Augenstein of the 12./NJG 1, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+HZ from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Belgium; came down at Stuttgart-Wangen. Those who perished now lie in Durnbach War Cemetery:

Fg Off A J duncan RAAF (Killed on Active Service)
Sgt F R W Waters (Evaded)
Sgt W I Dransfield (PoW)
Sgt H C Kneil (PoW)
Flt Sgt M J Nolan RAAF (PoW)
Flt Sgt Hennessy (Killed on Actice Service)
Flt Sgt G A Walker (Killed on Active Service)

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Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 359
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
26-Aug-2013 08:16	JINX	Added
26-Aug-2013 08:19	JINX	Updated [Operator, ]
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