Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III LM384,
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Date:Sunday 20 February 1944
Time:02:59 claim
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:625 Sqn RAF
Registration: LM384
MSN: CF-X
Fatalities:Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Bledeln, Algermissen, Niedersachsen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Kelstern, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 23:53 hrs for an operation against aircraft assembly factories at Leipzig in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by Oberleutnant Heinz Ferger of the 3./NJG 3, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from (presumably) Vechta airfield.

For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LM384
Google Maps

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
26-Dec-2019 15:12 TigerTimon Added
27-Dec-2019 20:41 TigerTimon Updated [Narrative]

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