This information is added by users of ASN. Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information.
If you feel this information is incomplete or incorrect, you can
submit corrected information.
Date: | Wednesday 30 August 1944 |
Time: | 01:19 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 75 (NZ) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | HK594 |
MSN: | AA-G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Svensköp, just N of, (Skane), 25 km SW Kristianstad -
Sweden
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Mepal |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Bombing raid over Stettin, two engines destroyed. Tail hit by Messerschmitt Bf 110, rear gunner killed over south Sweden. Swedish AA opens fire. Messerschmitt opens fire again. Everybody except the pilot (and rear gunner) bailed out. Then the pilot bails out and land close to Tollarp in south Sweden. One house severely damaged in bombs explosion.
The other crew bailed out over sea, bodies of Moon and Hill was found (KIA). The other is MIA until today, except for the body of the tail-gunner who followed the plane to the ground. Of those who who perished, three are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial while both air gunners and Sgt Hill rest in Sweden at Halsingborg (Palsjo) Municipal Cemetery:
Pilot: Flight Sergeant D. A. S. King (Evaded)
Flight Engineer: Sergeant J. P. Callan (Killed On Active Service)
Bomber: Flight Sergeant J. Fitzgerald RNZAF (Killed On Active Service)
Navigator: Flight Sergeant W. D. Watson RNZAF (Killed On Active Service)
Wireless Operator/Gunner Sergeant C. B. Hill (Killed On Active Service)
Gunner: Sergeant D. L. D. Moon (Killed On Active Service)
Rear gunner: Sergeant H. W. Causley (Killed On Active Service)
The aircraft was intercepted by Major Werner Husemann of the Stab I./NJG 3, who had taken off from Schleswig airfield (Germany) at 23:20 hrs, in Junkers Ju 88G D5+XB - (claim) Lancaster N of Ystad (Sweden) 2,800 meters at 01:19.
Sources:
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.flyghistoria.org/images_minnesten/Svenskop.htm]
http://www.kristianstadsbladet.se/kristianstad/natten-da-kriget/ Excavation of the crash site april 2009: [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.arkeologiuv.se/cms/arkeologiuv/aktuellt_uv/slagfaltsarkeologi/svenskop_1944.html]
- Falkenbergs Museum/Lars Wikander: De kom aldrig hem (1994)
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=http://www.forcedlandingcollection.se/RAF/RAF072-HK594.html&prev=search Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._75_Squadron_RAF Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-Oct-2010 07:11 |
Masen63 |
Added |
14-Oct-2010 09:38 |
Masen63 |
Updated [Date] |
02-Nov-2010 11:08 |
Masen63 |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
03-Nov-2010 06:53 |
Masen63 |
Updated [Phase, Source, Narrative] |
13-Sep-2011 03:59 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
13-Sep-2011 11:01 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
28-Dec-2011 15:07 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative] |
31-Jan-2012 00:47 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source] |
30-Dec-2012 11:18 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |
03-Jun-2013 08:16 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
05-Jul-2016 15:49 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
10-Jan-2018 15:51 |
angels one five |
Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
27-Oct-2018 19:44 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
18-Jun-2021 17:24 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |