Date:	Tuesday 13 June 1944
Time:	01:43 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration:	DV286
MSN:	BH-C
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	IJsselmeer 3 km S of Wijdenes, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Faldingworth UK
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Faldingworth at 23:20 hrs for a bombing operation against the Nordstern synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen in Germany. Homeward-bound, as it crossed the Dutch Coast, crashed on fire after being intercepted by night fighter pilot Leutnant Gottfried Hanneck of the 6./NJG 1, who had taken off from Deelen airfield in a Bf 110 G-4.

Plt Off Morski (Polish Air Force) PAF was rescued by two Dutch fishermen and later transferred to a German Naval vessel. Sgt Bladowski PAF was washed ashore and he was initially laid to rest in Wijdenes Cemetery, though his grave is now in the Polish Field of Honour at Breda. The others who died are commemorated on the Northolt Memorial. Plt Off Morski was later to have published an account of this loss in Nowy Dzennik, New York on Thursday 14 November 1996:

Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Sergeant Franciszek Rembecki PAF [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Feliks Bladowski PAF [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Isaak Feil PAF [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Boleslaw Morski PAF P/2249 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant Jan Bokros PAF [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Wladyslaw Leppert PAF [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Stanislaw Miszturak PAF [Killed]

** 9 Halifax and 5 Stirlings minelaying off Brest and St-Nazaire, 13 aircraft on Resistance operations. No aircraft were lost.

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
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Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second world War 1944 Page 275.
http://www.polishwargraves.nl/bred/bhc.htm
http://www.arg1940-1945.nl/engels/lancaster%20bh-c%20pagina%201gb.htm
http://www.arg1940-1945.nl/engels/lancaster%20bh-c%20pagina%201gb%20-%20copy.htm
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*Luftwaffe Night Fighter Combat Claims 1939-1945.
**The Bomber Command War Diaries 1939-1945
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
06-Jan-2009 10:21	Anon.	Updated
27-Feb-2011 13:13	harro	Updated [Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
15-Jun-2016 15:08	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
15-Jun-2016 17:51	Red Dragon	Updated [Operator, Narrative, ]
17-Feb-2018 17:13	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, ]
05-Feb-2020 15:31	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator, ]
05-Oct-2020 18:35	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
05-Oct-2020 18:37	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative, ]
15-Jun-2022 19:35	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
27-May-2024 06:54	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]