ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50895
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| Date: | Sunday 20 February 1944 |
| Time: | 05:34 claim |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 12 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | JB609 |
| MSN: | PH-F |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | along the Schaarweg, Elspeet, Gelderland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Wickenby |
Took off from RAF Wickenby at 23:23 hrs, for an operation against aircraft assembly factories at Leipzig in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Heinz Vinke of the 11./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Bergen airfield. All were buried between 21 and 25 February in Harderwijk General Cemetery.
Crew
Flt Sgt N C Bowker (KIA)
Sgt F W Burdett (KIA)
Flt Sgt A I Corlett (KIA)
Sgt E Gedge (KIA)
Sgt H G Williams (KIA)
WO2 J May RCAF (KIA)
Sgt E S Goodridge (KIA)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3425&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 82.
http://www.teunispats.nl/t3425.htm
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=https://rafaamsterdam.wordpress.com/tag/lancaster-jb-609-ph-f/&prev=search
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 1 September 1943 | DV241 | 12 Sqn RAF | 7 | Halle/Hackpfüffel, Sachsen-Anhalt |  |
w/o |
| 3 November 1943 | JB536 | 12 Sqn RAF | 7 | west of Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 07-Jun-2016 16:32 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Oct-2018 19:10 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 24-Dec-2019 20:10 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Jun-2022 10:26 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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