ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 243493
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| Date: | Thursday 25 May 1944 |
| Time: | 02:20 claim |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 576 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LM120 |
| MSN: | UL-T2 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Dreiborn-Hellenthal, Nord Rhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire |
| Aachen Railway Yards |
Take off at 23:50 hrs for a bombing operation against the Westbahnhof railway station at Aachen.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Helmut Gaul of the Stab I./NJG 6, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Hailfingen airfield in Baden-Württemberg. This was Gaul's 2nd victory.
Sgt Shutt, Sgt Bachelor and Sgt Cooper were initially buried in Dreiborn Cemtery
Reinterred 26 June 1947.
Crew
Pilot: 173918 Plt Off George Albert Langford - Runnymede Memorial Panel 211.
Flight Engineer: 1475487 Sgt Geoffrey Shutt - Rheinberg War Cemetery Plot 14 Row B Grave 23.
Navigator: 923438 WO Eric Arthur Mason - Runnymede Memorial Panel 214.
Bomb Aimer: 1549113 Sgt Raymond Stuart Dickinson - Runnymede Memorial Panel 228.
Wireless Operator: 1549777 Sgt Kenneth Harold Hodgkinson - Runnymede Memorial Panel 231.
Mid Upper Gunner: 1800174 Sgt Albert Ernest Bachelor - Rheinberg War Cemetery Plot 14 Row B Grave 24.
Rear Gunner: 1876629 Sgt George James Cooper - Rheinberg War Cemetery Plot 14 Row B Grave 22.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three, page 25.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LM120
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Oct-2020 18:43 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 20-May-2023 20:59 | redsix | Updated |
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