ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 164078
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| Date: | Sunday 20 February 1944 |
| Time: | 02:57 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 61 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | HK538 |
| MSN: | QR-F |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 200 metres southwest of Lessien, Ehra-Lessien, Niedersachsen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, UK |
The plane exploded midair. Two crew members ejected safely by parachute. Five others did not survive the crash.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hans Leickhardt of the 2./NJG 5 (based at Stendal airfield in Sachsen-Anhalt), who was flying a Bf 110 G-4.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Hubert Wallis RAFVR 155510 (NCO:1318868 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 05 October, 1943) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Thomas Forsyth Preston RAF 965739 [PoW]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Leslie Edward Tozer RAF 655959 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Albert Alfred Pardoe RAFVR 1316665 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Kenneth Sims RAFVR 1577750 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant David John Brewer RAFVR 1874022 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer Eric Bremner RAAF Aus/426297 [Killed]
R.I.P.
Sources:
http://www.waz-online.de/Gifhorn/Gifhorn-Stadt/Flugzeugabsturz-mit-fuenf-Toten
http://www.aircrewremembrancesociety.co.uk/styled-5/styled-11/styled-242/index.html
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/wallis-hubert.html
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 4 July 1942 | R5488 | 61 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea, 30 Km NW of Esbjerg |  |
w/o |
| 2 January 1944 | LM377 | 61 Sqn RAF | 7 | 300 metres south of Büren, Neustadt am Rübenberge, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Feb-2014 10:55 | gerard57 | Added |
| 20-Apr-2014 21:54 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 25-Dec-2019 20:23 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 25-Dec-2019 20:24 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Source] |
| 26-Dec-2019 14:40 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time] |
| 19-Feb-2024 12:52 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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