Date:	Sunday 28 May 1944
Time:	02:40 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	101 Sqn RAF
Registration:	LM459
MSN:	SR-K
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Oudelandsedijk 433, Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Ludford Magna, UK
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mission - bombing operation against the military camp at Leopoldsburg, Belgium.

Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Modrow and his regular Funker Uffz. Schneider who were scrambled from Venlo at 02:08 hrs in Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+EK of 2./NJG 1. This was Modrow's 16th victory.

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Thomas Arthur Allen RAFVR 170268 (NCO:1333480 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 22 February, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant John Edward Benson RAF 627862 [Killed]
Navigator : Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Friedt RCAF R/158288 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Reginald John Newens RAFVR 152717 (NCO:1334857 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 31 August, 1943) [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Kenneth John Power RAFVR 1579586 [Killed]
Special Equipment Operator : Flight Sergeant John Osborne Harris RAAF Aus/434251 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Raymond John Evans RAFVR 1386058 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant George Reid RAFVR 3020819 [Killed]

All eight rest in the Sommelsdijk General Cemetery, Netherlands (51.758791 / 4.143997)

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3730&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three, page 28.
Google Maps
Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
26-Dec-2011 09:14	Uli Elch	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
08-Jan-2012 14:37	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, ]
02-Oct-2020 12:25	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
27-May-2023 20:54	redsix	Updated
20-May-2024 11:52	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]