Date:	Friday 21 July 1944
Time:	01:00 approx
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	75 (NZ) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PA967
MSN:	AA-D
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Frenkenbaan road, Ospel, Limburg -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Mepal
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Mepal at 23:20 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil installation at Meerbeck in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfähnrich Gerhard Wartenborger of the 4./NJG 3, who was flying a Junkers Ju 88 G-1 from Plantlünne airfield in Germany; crashed at around 01:00 hrs in open countryside some 4 km N of Nederweert 4 km NE from the centre of Weert.

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Edward Howell RNZAF NZ/428819 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant John James Blundell RAFVR 2205143 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Richard John Wilkinson RAFVR 1585068 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer John Ronald McGeorge RAFVR 152740 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Gerald Henry Redwood RNZAF NZ/425012 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Robert Douglas McAdam RAFVR 2210689 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Leonard Charles Hickford RNZAF NZ/426886 [Killed]

All are buried in the Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Netherlands (51.822371 / 5.830618)

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 342.
https://75nzsquadron.wordpress.com/e-howell-crew-2-6-44-%E2%80%A0/
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3885&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Field into which PA967 crashed.Luchtoorlog 1939-1945

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
18-Aug-2013 06:25	JINX	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative, ]
25-Jun-2016 21:03	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Photo, ]
25-Jun-2016 21:04	Red Dragon	Updated [Phase, ]
27-Oct-2018 19:45	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ]
22-Oct-2020 17:03	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
09-Nov-2024 07:43	Rob Davis	Updated [Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, ]