Date:	Tuesday 13 June 1944
Time:	02:00 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk II
Owner/operator:	514 Sqn RAF
Registration:	DS818
MSN:	JI-Q
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Oosteinderweg, Nunspeet, Gelderland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waterbeach, Cambridge
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Waterbeach at 23:11 hrs for a bombing operation against the Nordstern synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen in Germany. Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by a Luftwaffe night fighter (possibly in the hands of Hauptmann Gerhard Keitel of the 2./NJG 3 operating a Bf 110 G-4); crashed at Nunspeet in the Province of Gelderland, where those who perished are buried in Ermelo (Nunspeet) New General Cemetery:

Crerw:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Derek Anthony Duncliffe RAF 174413 (NCO:1238964 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 16 May, 1944) [Evaded]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Peter Geoffrey Cooper RAF 1086096 [PoW]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Gordon Florence Lewis RAFVR 658833 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Harry James Bourne RAF 1586150 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant George Kennedy Brown RAFVR 1520541 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant William Edward Steger RAFVR 2208713 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Keith Russell Baker RAFVR 1852412 [Killed]

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3779&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 276.
http://www.teunispats.nl/t3779.htm
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
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Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
15-Jun-2016 15:32	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
18-Oct-2018 14:43	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator, ]
05-Oct-2020 17:11	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
27-May-2024 07:01	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]