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| Date: | Friday 21 July 1944 |
| Time: | 01:24 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 514 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | HK571 |
| MSN: | JI-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Daubenspeckshof, Moers, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
Takeoff at 23:07 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil installation at Meerbeck.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Hermann Greiner of the 11./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Belgium.
All seven crew members rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=HK571
Google Maps
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Oct-2020 18:00 | TigerTimon | Added |
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