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Date: | Monday 22 May 1944 |
Time: | 01:38 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 467 Sqn RAAF |
Registration: | ED657 |
MSN: | PO-T |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Burgemeester Peetersweg road at Nunhem, Limburg -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waddington |
Destination airport: | Duisburg |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Waddington at 22:43 hrs for a bombing operation against Duisburg in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Gottfried Schneider of the 3./NJG 3 based at Vechta airfield in Germany, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4. Credited as his 1st victory.
Crashed Burgemeester Peetersweg at Nunhem near Haelen
The crew were initially buried in Venlo Military Cemetery
Fg Off Harris RAAF - Grave 411.
Sgt Potts - Grave 412.
Flt Sgt Garde RAAF - Grave 413.
Fg Off Spring RAAF - Grave 415.
Fg Off Hailey RAAF - Grave 410.
Sgt Wallbank - Grave 416.
Sgt O’Callaghan - Grave 414.
Reinterred 21 October 1947.
Crew
Pilot: A/401690 Fg Off Robert Maxwell Harris RAAF - Jonkerbos War Cemetery Plot 8 Row E Grave 6.
Flight Engineer: 1861337 Flt Sgt Alec Raymond Potts - Jonkerbos War Cemetery Plot 8 Row F Joint Grave 8-9.
Navigator: A/426079 Flt Sgt Douglas Graham Garde RAAF - Jonkerbos War Cemetery Plot 8 Row E Grave 8.
Bomb Aimer: A/423918 Fg Off Thomas Lavenham Spring RAAF - Jonkerbos War Cemetery Plot 8 Row E Grave 7.
Wireless Operator: A/419467 Fg Off Keith Ian Hailey RAAF - Jonkerbos War Cemetery Plot 8 Row E Grave 5.
Mid Upper Gunner: 945652 Sgt Cyril Wallbank - Jonkerbos War Cemetery Plot 8 Row F Joint Grave 8-9.
Rear Gunner: 1167231 Sgt Patrick Joseph Anthony O’Callaghan - Jonkerbos War Cemetery Plot 8 Row E Grave 9.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3690&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Royal Air Force bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 231.
Theo Boiten: Nachtjagd 1944 vol 3, p. 011.http://www.raafdb.com/view_aircraft.asp?id=1194
http://ww2.dk/air/njagd/njg3.htm
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
17 March 1945 |
PD231 |
467 Sqn RAAF |
6 |
Aufstetten near Würzburg (Bayern) |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
12-Jun-2016 16:25 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
23-Oct-2018 20:03 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
17-Aug-2020 18:06 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
07-May-2023 07:23 |
Anon. |
Updated [[Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]] |