ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50339
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 1944 |
| Time: | 02:09 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 101 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ME613 |
| MSN: | SR-M2 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Drunen, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Ludford Magna |
Took off from RAF Ludford Magna at 23:14 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Koppelmeyer of the 6./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Deelen airfield; crashed at Drunen, a large village 3 km east of Waalwijk, on the land of Mr Lambooy.
Fg Off Cook RCAF, who came from Santa FE in Tennessee, is buried in the Canadian section of the Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery while the others who died rest at Jonkerbos War Cemetery. Sgt Jagger was the specialist operator:
Fg Off S W Cook RCAF (KIA) - Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery
Sgt A C Payton (POW)
Sgt J S Francis (KIA) - Jonkerbos War Cemetery (Gelderland)
Flt Lt W E Lockwood (POW)
Sgt A E Holmes (KIA) - Jonkerbos War Cemetery (Gelderland)
Sgt D Jagger (KIA) - Jonkerbos War Cemetery (Gelderland)
Sgt J M Starr RCAF (POW)
Fg Off M G Gillespie RCAF (POW)
Sources:
http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1944%20sec_tcm5-7285.pdf
http://www.moseleians.co.uk/roll-of-honour-2/
Royal Air force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World war 1944 Page 293.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/spencer-cook.html
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/t3839/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 17-Jun-2015 11:06 | gerard57 | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Dec-2015 18:46 | DB | Updated [Operator] |
| 20-Jun-2016 17:11 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Oct-2018 05:33 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 15-Oct-2020 19:09 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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