ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 208838
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Date: | Sunday 4 April 1943 |
Time: | 23:50 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 9 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ED696 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1 km northeast of Großenaspe, south of Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Wilhelm Kurreck of the 8./NJG 3, flying a Bf 110 from Stade or Lüneburg airfield.
Target: Kiel
Call Sign: WS-T
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Sergeant John Harvey Courtney Walsh RAFVR 778564 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Herbert Llewelyn Jones RAF 570542 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Ronald Edward Raven RAFVR 144762 (NCO:1383294 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 08 June, 1943) [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Kennedy Emslie Fraser RAFVR 126958 (NCO:1561581 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 17 November, 1942) [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Wilfred Telfer RCAF R/106683 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flying Officer Stuart Melbourne Hobson RAF 49285 (NCO:551619 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 25 August, 1942) [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Eric Sharpe Wood RAFVR 953122 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://dambustersblog.com/category/william-tytherleigh/ Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Apr-2018 16:51 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
03-Nov-2018 19:37 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
04-Apr-2024 06:58 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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