ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231285
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Date: | Friday 21 January 1944 |
Time: | 22:39 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 514 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LL680 |
MSN: | A2-H2 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Wrestedt, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt.
The aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Walter Rohlfing of the 9./NJG 3 (based at Stade airfield), who was flying a Bf 110 G-4.
Pilot officer Victor Vizer, on his fifth operation, was thrown clear through the Perspex canopy and survived though badly injured.
For more info on the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LL680 Google Maps
Revision history:
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