ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 244301
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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 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Daubenspeckshof, Moers, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative: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 |
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