Date:	Friday 12 May 1944
Time:	00:48 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	166 Sqn RAF
Registration:	ME779
MSN:	AS-S
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Elkerzee hamlet, Scharendijke, Zeeland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Kirmington
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 22:05 hrs for an operation to the railway yards at Hasselt in Belgium.
The aircraft was shot down by Leutnant Gottfried Hanneck, Uffz. Wurschitz & Uffz. Glöckner of the 6./NJG 1, who had taken off from Brüssel-Melsbroek airfield in Belgium at 23:20 hrs, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+IP.

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Geoffrey John Reader Clark RAFVR 172551 (NCO:1394886 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 04 April, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Kenneth Slater RAF 1891797 [PoW]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Percy Robert Pool RAF 1317794 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Montague Basil Brackley RAF 1603292 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Raymond James Bond RAFVR 1411265 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Herbert Stanley Douglas Tulett RAFVR 1711838 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Leonard George Smith RAFVR 1808582 [Killed]

The 4 crew KIA were buried first in a temporary grave in Haamstede (Zeeland) in May 1944; reburied in 1946 at Bergen Op Zoom.

1. Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
2. https://www.raf166squadron.com/
3. https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3662&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 222.
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://wingstovictory.nl/database/database_detail-en.php%3Fwtv_id%3D388&prev=search
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Kriegstagebuch II./NJG 1

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
26-Dec-2014 20:30	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
12-Jun-2016 13:27	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
02-Nov-2018 18:34	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ]
21-Jun-2019 18:46	Anon.	Updated [Source, ]
07-Apr-2020 08:32	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
07-Apr-2020 09:50	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative, ]
10-May-2024 07:15	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
19-Aug-2024 13:55	TigerTimon	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]