ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50451
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| Date: | Thursday 25 May 1944 |
| Time: | 02:48 claim |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 405 (Vancouver) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | ND526 |
| MSN: | LQ-M |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Gransden Lodge, Cambridgeshire |
Takeoff at 00:24 hrs for a bombing operation against the Westbahnhof railway station at Aachen in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Wilhelm Henseler of the 1./NJG 1, who was flying a Heinkel He 219 A-0 from Venlo airfield. This was Henseler's 10th victory.
Pilot / S/Ldr. G. Bennett DSO DFC J/15248 RCAF / Bergen op Zoom RCAF cemetery; grave 11 E 3
Second Pilot / F/Sgt. J.I. Rees 1381572 RAF / evader, POW (was arrested 16th June near Turnhout, Belgium)
Flight Engineer / F/Lt. E. Baker J/14781 RCAF / POW
Navigator / P/O. F.C. Davies J/85093 RCAF / evader, POW (was arrested 16th June near Turnhout, Belgium)
Bomb Aimer / F/O. S.A. Walker 152654 RAF / POW
Wireless Operator/ Air Gunner / F/Sgt. A. Rodgers DFM 1064159 RAF / POW
Mid Upper Gunner / W/O. II W.V. Joel R/180404 RCAF / evader, POW (was arrested in Brussels)
Rear Gunner / W/O. II J.H. Frame R/167560 RCAF / evader
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three, page 25.
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3721&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
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History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 17 January 1945 | PB402 | 405 (Vancouver) Sqn RCAF | 8 | Pfaffenhausen |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 01-Oct-2020 17:43 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-May-2023 21:29 | redsix | Updated [[Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]] |
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