Date:	Saturday 25 March 1944
Time:	00:12 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	57 Sqn RAF
Registration:	ND671
MSN:	DX-I
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Geseke, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF East Kirkby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 18:50 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the Stab IV./NJG 1, who had left St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Belgium at 22:16 hrs, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+EZ. The official crash investigation report shows time of crash at 23.30 on 24 March 1944. It mentions night fighter activity in the area, but records flak as the cause of crash. If 23.30 is accurate, then Schnaufer record of 1210 makes it unlikely that he was responsible, although there are several others who could claim credit fitting in with the time frame of 23.30.

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer George Alfred Hampton RAAF Aus/415527 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Franr Sidney Bodkin RAFVR 1722687 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant Ralph Ellis Gerrard Nuttall RAF 1483234 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Thomas James Adkison RCAF R/161691 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant John Milful RAF 1040899 [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer Carl Walter Strom RCAF J/92009 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Desmond Claude Youngs RAFVR 1874065 [Killed]

All lie at the Hanover War Cemetery, Germany (52.377026 / 9.654365)

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ND671
Google Maps
Royal Australian Airforce archive - records of Pilot Officer George Alfred Hampton
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database http://robdavistelford.co.uk/webspace/raf_bc

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-Apr-2020 08:19	TigerTimon	Added
24-Nov-2021 18:25	Hampton	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
01-Mar-2025 09:04	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]