ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 234610
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Date: | Saturday 25 March 1944 |
Time: | 00:32 LT |
Type: | 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
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