Date:	Friday 21 July 1944
Time:	01:45 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	622 Sqn RAF
Registration:	LM595
MSN:	GI-O
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Molenpolder, Oude-Tonge, Zuid-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Mildenhall
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Mildenhall at 23:10 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 Oberfeldwebel Rudolf Mangelsdorf of the 12./NJG 3, who was flying a Junkers Ju 88 G-1 from Düsseldorf airfield in Germany.
The Lanc crashed 01:45 into the Molenpolder on the island of Overflakkee near the village of Oude-Tonge.
All are buried in Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery. At 36 and 35 respectively Flt Sgt Crowther and Sgt Spaven were above the average age of airmen flying in operational capacity with Bomber Command.

Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer John Edgar Alexander Pyle RAFVR 175907 (NCO:1576879 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 20 June, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Albert Howard Hall RAFVR 1544769 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Peter Alexander MacGibbon RAFVR 1451336 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Leslie Tomlinson RAF 659150 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant Ernest Crowther RAFVR 1510703 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer William Harry Pool RCAF J/89375 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant James Leslie Spaven RAFVR 1592133 [Killed]

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3894&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three

- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991

Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 344.
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
27-Dec-2011 04:45	Uli Elch	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
24-Jun-2016 17:29	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
09-Oct-2018 18:27	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
22-Oct-2020 19:30	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative]
22-Oct-2020 19:30	TigerTimon	Updated [Source]
16-Apr-2024 14:55	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]