ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231306
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Date: | Friday 21 January 1944 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 83 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB365 |
MSN: | OL-X |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Pretzien, Schönebeck, Sachsen-Anhalt -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:57 hrs for an operation to Magdeburg in Sachsen-Anhalt.
Whilst approaching Magdeburg at 23:15 hrs, the aircraft was intercepted and set on fire by Feldwebel Andreas Hartl of the 6./JG 302 (based at Ludwigslust airfield in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, who was flying an Fw 190A.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB365 Google Maps
Revision history:
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