Date:	Wednesday 15 March 1944
Time:	22:58 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	625 Sqn RAF
Registration:	DV194
MSN:	CF-F
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Obereschach, Villingen-Schwenningen, Baden-Württemberg -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Kelstern, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 19:08 hrs for an operation to Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Alfred Rauer of the 3./NJG 1, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+LL from Laon-Athies airfield in France.

Crew:
Pilot: 574399 F/Sgt Frank Grafton Hodgkins (RAFVR)
Navigator: R/155142 WO2 Arthur John Dennis Fox (RCAF)
Flight Engineer: 966502 Sgt Norman Sinclair Allan (RAFVR)
Air Bomber: 1509409 Sgt Allen Edward Roy Ward (RAFVR)
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: 1527311 Sgt Arthur Smith (RAFVR)
Air Gunner: 1876520 Sgt Harold Edward Chapman (RAFVR)
Air Gunner: 1568128 Sgt John McDougal McIntyre (RAFVR)

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/hodgkins-frank.html
https://www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.1944-jagdbomber-ueber-obereschach-als-das-dorf-knapp-einer-katastrophe-entging.b2d7b1cc-8b30-4729-8409-d39a5925e0bc.html
Google Maps
625 Sqn wartime records from The National Archives UK
Personnel file of WO2 Fox from Archives Canada and the CVWM
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2080454
RCAF Losses 1944
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=32344
RCAF Historical Microfiches
CASPIR

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
15-Jan-2020 20:01	TigerTimon	Added
15-Mar-2021 15:32	gerard57	Updated [Other fatalities, Source, ]
08-Jun-2025 18:15	tachel	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]