Date:	Sunday 30 January 1944
Time:	21:49 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	156 Sqn RAF
Registration:	JA702
MSN:	GT-Z
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	eastern IJsselmeer, Overijssel -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Warboys
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Warboys at 1708.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hans-Heinz Augenstein of the 7./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield.
Crashed in an area of the IJsselmeer which is now reclaimed land, known as the Noordoostpolder (province of Flevoland) on plot H-46, near the village of Tollebeek. Those who died were buried on 10 February in Stad Vollenhove General Cemetery. Debris from crash site was found during March 1973.

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer John Edward Rule RNZAF NZ/416543 [Killed] Vollenhove cemetery; grave 3 4 62
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Edward Arthur Shorter RAFVR 1726836 [Killed] Vollenhove cemetery; grave 3 4 623
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Kenneth Richard Ball RAF 658450 [Killed] Vollenhove cemetery; grave 3 4 624
Navigator : Sergeant William Winston Cottam RAF 1510799 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Patrick Coyne RAF 972772 [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant George Albert Race RAFVR 998929 [Killed] Vollenhove cemetery; grave 3 4 620
Rear Gunner : Sergeant John Johnstone Sloan RAFVR 1552498 [Killed] Vollenhove cemetery; grave 3 4 621

Vollenhove (Stad-Vollenhove) General Cemetery, Netherlands (52.680564 / 5.945464)

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3342&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 67.
http://www.teunispats.nl/t3342.htm
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?2873-Search-RAF-POW-Cottam-Coyne-30-01-1944
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
04-Jun-2016 21:40	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
04-Jun-2016 21:41	Red Dragon	Updated [Source, ]
03-Nov-2018 09:59	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ]
18-Dec-2019 10:56	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ]
15-Jun-2022 19:48	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
17-Jun-2022 21:50	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
03-Mar-2025 07:39	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]