ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 159580
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| Date: | Thursday 8 March 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | PD278 |
| MSN: | HA-V |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Marisfeld -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Chedburgh |
Mission to Dessau. Took off from RAF Chedburgh at 1723 hrs. Believed to have been shot down by a night-fighter, crashing at Marisfeld 11 km ESE from Meiningen . All are buried in the Friedhof at Marisfeld, but on 1 July 1950, their bodies were exhumed and transferred to Berlin for internment in the 1939-1945 War Cemetery. Their average age was 22.
Royal Air Force bomber Command Losses of the Second War 1945 Page 120.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Kenneth James MacKenzie RNZAF NZ/413442 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Thomas Slater RAFVR 1589551 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Douglas Vernon Myers RAFVR 154260 (NCO:1672233 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 08 February, 1944) [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer James Vincent McShane RAFVR 153938 (NCO:1548610 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 08 February, 1944) [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Derek Dinshaw Duckworth RAFVR 1530936 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Norman Hicks RAFVR 1595141 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Ronald Scrowther RAFVR 1591560 [Killed]
Sources:
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
https://218squadron.wordpress.com/avro-lancaster-mk-b-i-pd278/
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1945 Page 120.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 29-Aug-2013 15:36 | JINX | Added |
| 29-May-2016 06:21 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Jan-2018 18:49 | XindelX | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport] |
| 07-Mar-2024 08:01 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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