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Date: | Wednesday 21 February 1945 |
Time: | 20:48-55 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 227 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PB666 |
MSN: | 9J-J |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hijinkhoekweg - Aarninkweg roads, Woold, Gelderland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Balderton, Nottinghamshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Balderton |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Balderton at 17:21 hrs to attack the Mittelland Kanal near Gravenhorst.
Homeward-bound, intercepted by the crew of Major Schnaufer, Leutnant Rumpelhardt & Oberfeldwebel Gänzler of the Stab/NJG 4, who were flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+EF from Gütersloh airfield in Germany.
Crashed on land owned by Mr Damkot, Het Woold K21 (Gelderland).
Those who died are buried in the local general cemetery where 38 of the fifty service graves are the resting places for airmen of Bomber Command:
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Peter Isaac Green RAFVR 183823 (NCO:1393380 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 10 October, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Harry Robert Piper RAFVR 3030989 [Killed]
Navigator : Warrant Officer Class I A F Dales RCAF [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Warrant Officer Class I D E Cassidy RCAF [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant H Roberts RAF [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Frederick George Edwards RAFVR 1049072 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant W Lancaster RAF [PoW]
Sources:
SGLO database -
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/ahome/lossregister/results?sglo=T5268 Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1945
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1945 Page 88
https://www.findagrave.com/page=gr&GSln=Green&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1945&GSdyrel=in&GScntry=69&GSob=n&GRid=13906490&df=all& https://www.findagrave.com/page=gr&GSln=Green&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1945&GSdyrel=in&GScntry=69&GSob=n&GRid=13906490&df=all& https://www.findagrave.com/page=gr&GSln=Edwards&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1945&GSdyrel=in&GScntry=69&GSob=n&GRid=13906443&df=all& Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
28-Aug-2013 16:28 |
JINX |
Updated [Operator, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
27-May-2016 16:19 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
25-Apr-2018 12:47 |
A.J.Scholten |
Updated [Narrative] |
10-Nov-2018 21:46 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
17-Jun-2022 01:31 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
25-Jun-2022 09:33 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, Category] |
21-Feb-2024 07:53 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |