ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50344
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 1944 |
| Time: | 02:17 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 101 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LM508 |
| MSN: | SR-P |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Werkendam - Biesbosch; Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Ludford Magna |
Took off from RAF Ludford Magna at 23:17 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling in Germany.
On the homeward leg, shot down by the night fighter crew of Leutnant Schäfer, Unteroffizier Manter & Obergefreiter Klietmann of the 7./NJG 2, who had been scrambled from Volkel airfield in Junkers Ju 88 G-1 R4+JR at 00:32 hrs; crashed in the Biesbosch estuary near Werkendam, 20 km NNE of Oosterhout.
Of the two who died, Flt Sgt Duff rests in Werkendam Protestant Cemetery but Sgt Keogh has no known grave. Plt Off Hingley landed on a bridge and was admitted to hospital with a broken thigh bone:
Plt Off G hingley (POW)
Sgt S D Rogerson (POW)
Fg Off T W Ball (POW)
Flt Sgt T H Duff (KIA)
Sgt L V H Horrigan (POW)
Sgt F Sheard (POW)
Sgt J Gascoigne (POW)
Sgt J E Keogh (KIA) Remains found in 2014
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3838&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 293.
http://www.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/t3838/
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.wilhelminasluis.nl/werkendam-22-06-44.html&prev=search
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://vuhbs.nl/publicaties/id%3D212/archeologische-begeleiding-van-de-berging-van-lancaster-lm508-sr-p-in-werkendam&prev=search
http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/60684/Crash-Location-Lancaster-LM508-SR-P-Werkendam.htm
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.wo2actueel.nl/artikel/3833/Fotoverslag-open-dag-berging-Lancaster-LM508-SR-P.htm&prev=search
http://www.tube45.host/video/salvage-lancaster-lm508-at-werkendam-netherlands/qRd1AIbd9wo
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 April 1944 | LL750 | 101 Sqn RAF | 6 | Alt St. Johann-Gräppelensee |  |
w/o |
| 2 February 1945 | PB256 | 101 Sqn RAF | 8 | Maudach 2 miles W ofLudwigshafen |  |
w/o |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Dec-2011 04:10 | Uli Elch | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 19-Jun-2016 11:34 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 09-Oct-2018 05:32 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 15-Oct-2020 19:49 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Oct-2020 19:49 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time] |
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