ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 212474
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Date: | Wednesday 23 June 1943 |
Time: | 01:29 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 83 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W4982 |
MSN: | OL-O |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Oberhausen-Osterfeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Hit by heavy Flak units.
Takeoff time: 23:04
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Maurice Edgar Rust RAFVR 146988 [Killed] (NCO:1335222 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 27 July, 1943)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Leslie Ashworth RAF 533104 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant James Munro Hurson RAFVR 1384018 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Sydney Williams RAFVR 1381181 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Ernest Charles Stally RAFVR 1383228 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant George Charles Chapman RAFVR 1395829 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Frederick Francis Foden RAFVR 1454500 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W4982 Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
24 August 1943 |
JA927 |
83 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Horstfelde, Zossen, Brandenburg |
|
w/o |
3 January 1944 |
ND330 |
83 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Weißenberge, Wahrenholz, Niedersachsen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
21-Jun-2018 20:58 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
03-Nov-2018 20:41 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
22-Jun-2023 06:45 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [[Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]] |
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