ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51818
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Date: | Friday 28 May 1943 |
Time: | 01:15 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 156 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W4943 |
MSN: | GT-Q |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near the Karweg road, Otterlo, Gelderland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Warboys |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:12 for an operation to Essen, Germany.
Over the Netherlands, en route to the target, the aircraft suffered engine trouble. A while later it was hit by Flak.
In the end, it was shot down by night fighter pilot Major Werner Streib of the Stab I./NJG 1, flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+CB from Venlo airfield.
The area where the aircraft crashed is referred to as the 'Otterlosche Buurtbosch'.
Crew:
Pilot F/Sgt. D.L. Wallace 415060 RAAF Ede H 5
Flight engineer F/Sgt. R.J. Jackson 1172279 RAF Survived POW
Navigator F/Sgt. T.H. Harvey 1391145 RAF Survived POW
Bomb aimer F/Sgt. R.J. Twinn 1386995 RAF Survived POW
Wireless op F/Sgt. W.H.G.I. Moore 1213493 RAF Survived POW
Air gunner F/Sgt. D. Ross 412844 RAAF Ede H 4 Parachute failure
Air gunner F/Sgt. H.A. Lister 415538 RNzAF Ede H 5
Sources:
SGLO database -
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/ahome/lossregister/results?sglo=T2392 Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
http://www.platformmhe.nl/documenten/PlatformMHE_CrashesEde.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
28-May-2018 19:55 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
03-Nov-2018 10:09 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
07-Jan-2019 20:40 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Narrative] |
23-May-2023 12:40 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [[Time, Cn, Location, Narrative]] |
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