ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50273
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| Date: | Friday 21 July 1944 |
| Time: | 01:51 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 15 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | R5904 |
| MSN: | LS-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Stelvenseweg 19, Made, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Mildenhall |
Took off from RAF Mildenhall at 23:30 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil installation at Meerbeck in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the Stab IV./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Belgium.
Those who died are buried in Jonkerbos War Cemetery. Flt Lt Evans was the Squadron's Engineer Leader. Flt Lt Bell had crashed in June while returning from Massy-Palaiseau; on that occasion his navigator was killed:
Flt lt W J Bell DFC (KIA)
Flt Lt D G Evans (KIA)
Plt Off A D Hayden (PoW)
WO2 F G Oakes RCAF (KIA)
Flt Sgt P B Sweatman (KIA)
Sgt J B Brennan (KIA)
Sgt T S Brookfield (KIA)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3879&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 341.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/BomberCommandDatabaseSearch/?q=Sweatman+and+Lancaster+and+1944
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 1 November 1943 | HK612 | 15 Sqn RAF | 7 | near 'Heuvel' at Veghel, Noord-Brabant | |
w/o |
| Mid-air collision | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 25-Jun-2016 14:36 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Nov-2018 20:36 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 23-Oct-2020 07:27 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 23-Oct-2020 07:28 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time] |
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