Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III JB129,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 234619
 
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Date:Friday 24 March 1944
Time:23:34 claim
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:61 Sqn RAF
Registration: JB129
MSN: QR-G
Fatalities:Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Rimbeck, Warburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 18:49 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Peter Ehrhardt of the 8./NJG 5, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Werneuchen airfield in Brandenburg.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/cox-john-grant.html
Google Maps

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
3 June 1942 R5562 61 Sqn RAF 6 Rees, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
6 December 1944 ME725 61 Sqn RAF 2 Ilschhausen, Ebsdorfergrund, Hessen w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
01-Apr-2020 09:01 TigerTimon Added
01-Apr-2020 09:02 TigerTimon Updated [Time]

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