Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III NE145, Wednesday 28 June 1944
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Date:Wednesday 28 June 1944
Time:02:27 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:90 Sqn RAF
Registration: NE145
MSN: WP-D
Fatalities:Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Canada Farm at Icklingham, Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Tuddenham, Suffolk
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 23:41 hrs for a bombing operation against a V-1 flying bomb factory at Biennais, Étaimpuis (Seine-Maritime département).

On return, the aircraft was shot down by intruder pilot Leutnant Anselm Markau of the 4./KG 51, who had taken off from Soesterberg airfield (the Netherlands) shortly after 01:00 hrs, in an Me 410 A-1/U2.

The crew of seven were all killed.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/todd-cyril-james.html
Google Maps

Revision history:

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16-Oct-2020 08:32 TigerTimon Added

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