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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 1944 |
| Time: | 01:06 claim |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LM592 |
| MSN: | KM-Q |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Walik, Riethoven, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Dunholme Lodge |
Took off from RAF Dunholme Lodge at 22:57 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hermann Leube of the 4./NJG 3, who had taken off from Eindhoven airfield at 00:35 hrs, in Junkers Ju 88 G-1 D5+KM; sent down to explode twixt the village of Riethoven and the nearby town of Valkenswaard. All are buried in Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery:
Plt off E A Canty RAAF (KIA)
Sgt R E Clay (KIA)
Fg Off J R Vowles RAAF (KIA)
Sgt E Norris (KIA)
Plt Off W M Crook (KIA)
Sgt E G Scott (KIA)
Sgt L J P McCoy RAAF (KIA)
A Memorial has been provided by Riethoven community at Walik crash site dedicated 22 June 2019.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3830&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 291.
Relative of L J P McCoy who attended the dedication on 22 June 2019.
Images:
Photo at Walik of Memorial with crash site behind. Taken 22 June 2019
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Dec-2011 03:53 | Uli Elch | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 19-Jun-2016 16:12 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 30-Oct-2018 04:40 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ] |
| 07-May-2020 07:18 | Rustyrooster | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, Photo, ] |
| 12-Oct-2020 16:40 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, ] |
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