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Date: | Thursday 17 December 1942 |
Time: | 19:48 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 9 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ED349 |
MSN: | WS-S |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Bekhausen, Rastede, Niedersachsen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 17:03 hrs for a bombing operation against Cloppenburg in Niedersachsen.
The aircraft was coned by Scheinwerfer 48 (Frieschenmoor) at 19:40. Hit by light and heavy Flak of 6/Marine Flak Abt 222. By machine gun fire of Scheinwerfer Achtermeer (53) and Ovelgönne (97), by Flak of 1-5/Res Flak Abt 222 2/schw Flak Abt 262, lei. Hei Flak Battery . 3/XI, II/4/lei Flak Abt 988 and II and III/1/lei Flak Abt 836.
Sergeant William Harvey Penn RCAF (R/131821) was initially buried at Bad Zwischenahn Evangelical Parish Friedhof. Today, he rests in the Sage War Cemetery.
The others were all taken prisoner of war.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ED349 Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
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