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Date: | Monday 1 January 1945 |
Time: | 20:00 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PB768 |
MSN: | XH-B |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Namur -
Belgium
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Chedburgh |
Destination airport: | RAF Chedburgh |
Narrative:Shot down by US Army AA, on return from mission to Vohwinkel.
Took off from RAF Chedburgh at 1606 hrs to bomb the railway yards at Vohwinkel. Hit by flak over the target at 21,000 ft, sustaining damage to the fuel supply feeding the port inner engine. This engine was stopped. Over Namur homebound, the Lancaster was hit twice, in quick succession, by the American AA fire and the entire port side caught fire. As the order to bale out was given, the Lancaster spun and fell at Emines in the Belguim Province of Numar, 11 km SE of Gembloux. Those who died were buried in the Fosse US Temporary Military Cemetery, since when their remains have been taken to Leopoldsburg War Cemetery.
Crew
Fg Off R G Grivell RAAF (KIA)
Sgt L Peckett (KIA)
Flt Sgt H Clements RCAF (KIA)
Fg Off Ingram RCAF (Inj)
Sgt K Bennett (KIA)
Sgt E P Buttrun-Gardiner (KIA)
Sgt R E Keel (KIA)
Sources:
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1945 Page 26.
http://aircrewremembered.com/grivell-robert.html https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=PB768 Personnel file of the RCAF casualty including loss report (Ancestry.ca - Archives Canada)
218 Sqn wartime records from The National Archives UK
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=pb768&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact https://218squadron.wordpress.com/ Australian War Memorial
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10305067 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
29-Aug-2013 02:05 |
JINX |
Added |
17-May-2016 16:16 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
15-Jan-2018 18:49 |
XindelX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
21-Mar-2020 16:54 |
Anon. |
Updated [Source] |
20-Oct-2023 17:40 |
tachel |
Updated [[Source]] |