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Date: | Thursday 22 June 1944 |
Time: | 01:12 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 49 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ME675 |
MSN: | EA-R |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near 'Wellenseind' 3 km northeast of Bladel, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Fiskerton |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Fiskerton at 23:03 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Lau, Unteroffizier Backhaus & Gefreiter Reinecke in a Bf 110 G-4 of 4./NJG 1, who had taken off from Deelen airfield.
All are buried in Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery. Flt Lt Hil held a Bachelor of Science degree:
Flt Flt J R Hill (KIA)
Sgt G F Witty (KIA)
Fg Off K W Jones RNZAF (KIA)
Sgt D McD F Bell (KIA)
Sgt T B Whewell (KIA)
Sgt T A Hall (KIA)
flt Sgt G F Wood(KIA)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3833&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 291.
http://www.49squadron.co.uk/personnel_index/detail/Hill_JR K.E. 8984 (German record) for location, via J. Woortman
History of this aircraft
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17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
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20-Jun-2016 17:29 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
30-Oct-2018 04:53 |
Nepa |
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12-Oct-2020 16:57 |
TigerTimon |
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12-Oct-2020 16:57 |
TigerTimon |
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30-Jan-2021 20:49 |
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