Accident Avro Lancaster Mk II DS834, Wednesday 29 December 1943
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Date:Wednesday 29 December 1943
Time:22:30 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk II
Owner/operator:115 Sqn RAF
Registration: DS834
MSN: KO-F
Fatalities:Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:'Nelehof' farm, Tungelroy, Limburg -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:R.A.F. Witchford near Ely
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 17:28 for an operation to Berlin.
Shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Otto Fries of the 5./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield, Belgium.

Four crew members died, three survived:
Pilot F/Sgt. J.Y. Lee 1480142 RAF Survived pow
Flight engineer Sgt. A.F. Gunnell 16250225 RAF Survived evader
Navigator Sgt. H.L. Pike 1396474 RAF Survived evader, pow
Bomb aimer F/Sgt. K.S. Bell 414457 RAAF Tungelroij 1 4
Wireless op Sgt. L.H. Jones 1576162 RAF Tungelroij 1 3
Air gunner F/Sgt. A.M. Wilkinson R/182329 RCAF Tungelroij 1 1
Air gunner Sgt. G. Johnson 1818684 RAF Tungelroij 1 2

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3274&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://www.moseleians.co.uk/roll-of-honour-2/

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
15-Jun-2015 14:21 gerard57 Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
27-Dec-2018 18:08 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
28-Dec-2018 19:43 stehlik49 Updated [Operator, ]

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