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| Date: | Saturday 23 September 1944 |
| Time: | 22:40 claim |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 61 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LM718 |
| MSN: | QR-K |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Zandbos woods, Deurne, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Skellingthorpe, UK |
Took off at 19:17 hrs to breach the Dortmund-Ems canal north of Münster, Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Modrow & Feldwebel Schneider of the 1./NJG 1, who were flying Heinkel He 219 A-2 G9+HH from Münster-Handorf airfield in Germany.
The four-engined bomber fell along the Helmondseweg road at Deurne.
Crew:-
Pilot : Squadron Leader Hugh Wilkinson Horsley AFC RAFVR 68786 (NCO:1112409 : Commission Gazetted Friday 11 July, 1941) [Evaded]
Flight Engineer : Pilot Officer Charles Alfred Cawthorne DFM RAF 54753 (NCO:577064 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 20 June, 1944) [Evaded]
Navigator : Flying Officer John Charles Webber RAF 154082 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer John Parkin Wheeler RAF 154229 (NCO:1583493 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 11 January, 1944) [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant George Twyneham RAFVR 991577 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Herbert William Jennings RAF 411560 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant R T Hoskisson RAF 961858 [Evaded]
The casualties lie at the Venray War Cemetery, Netherlands (51.529128 / 5.955388)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4290&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
Google Maps
Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Dec-2011 06:05 | Uli Elch | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 24-Mar-2021 16:16 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 27-Dec-2024 07:52 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
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