ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 244304
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Date: | Friday 21 July 1944 |
Time: | 01:23 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 514 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LM181 |
MSN: | JI-E |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Ruhrgebiet, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:08 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil installation at Meerbeck.
The aircraft was intercepted by a night fighter and engaged by heavy (schwere) Flak.
All seven crew members rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LM181
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
15 March 1944 |
LL653 |
514 Sqn RAF |
8 |
between Blondefontaine and Villars-le-Pautel, Haute-Saône (70) |
|
w/o |
13 August 1944 |
LM265 |
514 Sqn RAF |
6 |
Engegstadt, about 10 miles south-west of Mainz |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-Oct-2020 18:45 |
TigerTimon |
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