Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III LM471,
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Date:Saturday 25 March 1944
Time:00:32 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:576 Sqn RAF
Registration: LM471
MSN: UL-J2
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Beeck, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 18:55 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinz Strüning of the 3./NJG 1, who was flying a Heinkel He 219 from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.

For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LM471
Google Maps

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
26 August 1944 PB400 576 Sqn RAF 2 Borgwedel, Schleswig-Holstein w/o

Revision history:

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01-Apr-2020 08:05 TigerTimon Added

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