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Date: | Thursday 22 June 1944 |
Time: | 02:20 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 630 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LM118 |
MSN: | LE-V |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Lennisheuvel, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF East Kirkby |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF East Kirby at 23:17 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 Oberfeldwebel Heinrich Küseling of the 12./NJG 3, who was flying a Junkers Ju 88 G-1 from Köln-Butzweilerhof airfield in Germany; crashed 4 km S of Boxtel, 8 km ENE of Oisterwijk.
All lie in Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery. Sgt Kimberley had attended Sparkhill Commercial School in Birmingham:
Crew:-
Pilot : P/O John Henry George Smith RAFVR 175502 (NCO:1602443) [Killed]
F/E : Sgt Ian Alistair Place RAFVR 1867724 [Killed]
Nav : Sgt Robert Edward Duck RAFVR 1578790 [Killed]
B/A : F/O Norman Bunker Wilcock RAFVR 144458 (NCO:1012433) [Killed]
W/Op/AG : Sgt John Kenneth Kimberley RAFVR 1581438 [Killed]
M/U : Sgt Eric Stanley Worden RAFVR 1589759 [Killed]
R/G : Sgt Henry George Kember RAFVR 1814573 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3845&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
http://ww2.dk/oob/bestand/njagd/bivnjg3.html - Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 295.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
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