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| Date: | Saturday 25 March 1944 |
| Time: | 00:15 |
| Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 625 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ME684 |
| MSN: | CF-V |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Aaltenseweg 97, Varsseveld, Gelderland -
Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Kelstern |
| Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off of RAF Kelstern at at 18:43 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Homeward-bound, it was attacked by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the Stab IV./NJG 1, who had left St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield (Belgium) in Bf 110 G-4 G9+EZ at 22.16 hrs.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Norman Arthur Wadham Clark RAF 55000 (NCO:530164 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 06 April, 1943) [PoW]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Donald 'Curly' Beckwith RAF 1481231 [Evaded]
Navigator : Flying Officer George Brand RAF 111651 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Alexander David Bull RCAF J/23233 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Flying Officer Peter Charles Tustin Armytage RAAF Aus/410431 [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant John B Remington RAF 1580259 [Evaded]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant John S 'Tish' Munro RCAF 191440 [Evaded]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3552&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 137.
http://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/lancaster/Lancaster11579.html Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
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| 08-Jun-2016 17:09 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 09-Oct-2018 18:30 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ] |
| 28-Mar-2020 22:00 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location, Phase, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 28-Mar-2020 22:01 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Embed code, ] |
| 28-Mar-2020 22:02 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 28-Aug-2024 06:02 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |