ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 209766
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Date: | Tuesday 25 April 1944 |
Time: | 00:08 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 61 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LM359 |
MSN: | QR-B |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | La Chapelle-Thècle, Saône-et-Loire département -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, UK |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 20:55 hrs for a bombing operation against München in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was hit by Longvic-based Flak and finished off by Oberleutnant Karl-Heinz Schäffer of the 6./NJG 4 based at Dôle-Tavaux airfield.
Six occupants died in the crash, one survived.
Sources:
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=1218 http://www.aerosteles.net/steleen-lachapellethecle-lancaste http://www.no-50-and-no-61-squadrons-association.co.uk/the-memorials/uk-european-memorials/le-chapelle-thecle/ Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Nachtjagdgeschwader/NJG4.htm Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
3 June 1942 |
R5613 |
61 Sqn RAF |
6 |
La Hulpe, Walloon Brabant |
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w/o |
4 July 1942 |
R5663 |
61 Sqn RAF |
6 |
Öresund near Lerberget, Helsingborg |
|
w/o |
15 August 1943 |
ED722 |
61 Sqn RAF |
5 |
Berchères-les-Pierres, Eure-et-Loir 28 |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
23-Apr-2018 11:48 |
gerard57 |
Added |
12-Nov-2018 17:56 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
15-May-2021 19:15 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Cn] |
15-May-2021 19:28 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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