ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231709
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Date: | Sunday 20 February 1944 |
Time: | 02:59 claim |
Type: | 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/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Dec-2019 15:12 |
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27-Dec-2019 20:41 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
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