Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III LL652,
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Date:Sunday 28 May 1944
Time:02:56 claim
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:514 Sqn RAF
Registration: LL652
MSN: JI-C
Fatalities:Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Ophasselt, Geraardsbergen, East Flanders -   Belgium
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:Aachen
Narrative:
Take off at 00:31 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rothe Erde railway station at Aachen in Germany.

Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hptm. Hans-Karl Kamp, Fw. Franz Stein & Uffz. Willem Rürup of the Stab III./NJG 4, who were flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Juvincourt airfield in France

Crew
Pilot: A/425812 Flt Lt Lloyd Charles Alexander Taylor RAAF - Geraardsbergen Communal Cemetery Collective Grave
13-14.
Flight Engineer: 568729 Sgt Alan Roderick - Geraardsbergen Communal Cemetery Collective Grave 13-14.
Navigator: 1483346 Sgt James Frederick Vincent - Geraardsbergen Communal Cemetery Collective Grave 13-14.
Bomb Aimer: A/426706 Flt Sgt Cecil Keith Thomas RAAF - Geraardsbergen Communal Cemetery Collective Grave 13-14.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: A/422083 Plt Off Stanley William Newman RAAF - Geraardsbergen Communal Cemetery Collective Grave 13-14.
Mid Upper Gunner: 158285 Fg Off Frederick Brearley Hill - Geraardsbergen Communal Cemetery Grave 12.
Rear Gunner: 2210653 Sgt Richard Gill - Geraardsbergen Communal Cemetery Grave 11.



Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three page 28.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LL652
Google Maps
CWGC

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
18 November 1943 DS784 514 Sqn RAF 5 Sorinne-la-Longue, Namur w/o
29 July 1944 LM206 514 Sqn RAF 5 7 km NNW of Neufchateau, Vosges w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
02-Oct-2020 18:11 TigerTimon Added
26-Jun-2022 09:08 Ron Averes Updated [Location]
27-May-2023 21:00 redsix Updated [[Location]]
28-May-2023 05:46 Anon. Updated [[[Location]]]

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