Date:	Thursday 22 June 1944
Time:	night
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	106 Sqn RAF
Registration:	LL955
MSN:	ZN-E
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	2 km NW of Oosterwolde, Gelderland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Metheringham
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 23:10 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by a night fighter (possibly in the hands of Hauptmann Modrow 1./NJG 1).

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer James Brodie RAFVR 174302 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Frank Henry Aldridge RAFVR 1853526 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant William Brownlee RAFVR 1560442 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant David Robinson Neill Keith RNZAF NZ/416005 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Royston Sleep RAFVR 1533681 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer Ronald Elmer Horton RCAF J/88617 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant George Francis Leo O'Connell RCAF R/203907 [Killed]

Sgt Sleep and F/Sgt O'Connell lie at the Oosterwolde General Cemetery, Netherlands (52.994934 / 6.291629)
The other five casualties lie at the Oosterwolde General Cemetery, Oldebroek, Netherlands (52.460517 / 5.884466)

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
P/O James Brodie's Pilot Log
Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 289.
http://www.teunispats.nl/t3840.htm
http://netherlandsnewzealandwargraves.weebly.com/oosterwolde.html
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database http://robdavistelford.co.uk/webspace/raf_bc

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
21-Aug-2010 14:02	Bossybabe	Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
24-Aug-2010 05:33	Anon.	Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, ]
02-Mar-2011 13:32	Anon.	Updated [Source, ]
02-Mar-2011 13:32	bossybabe	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
27-Dec-2011 04:20	Uli Elch	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, ]
28-Dec-2011 14:28	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Source, ]
21-Jun-2016 09:57	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
27-Oct-2018 21:04	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ]
15-Oct-2020 20:07	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
14-Jun-2022 22:01	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
17-May-2023 18:22	Nepa	Updated
14-Feb-2024 08:58	Anon.	Updated [Location, ]
03-Aug-2025 06:40	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]