ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 177758
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| Date: | Wednesday 22 March 1944 |
| Time: | 21:26 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 158 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LW580 |
| MSN: | NP-O |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Ummeln, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Lissett |
Took off from RAF Lissett at at 19:07 hrs for an operation against Frankfurt am Main in Hessen.
The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberstleutnant Helmut Lent and Oberfeldwebel Walter Kubisch of the Stab/NJG 3, who had been scrambled from St Trond (Sint-Truiden, Belgium) at 20:19 hrs in Bf 110 G-4 D5+CA; crashed 21:26 hrs between Ummeln and Brackwede, 8 km SW of Bielefeld. Those who died rest in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Also two women on the ground died as houses were destroyed as the result of the crash.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Sergeant Roy Fairplay RAFVR 1394032 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Raymond Edwin James RAFVR 1604711 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant John Alfred Bowler RAFVR 1448125 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Rupert Henry Sadler RAF 141983 (NCO:1390077 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 22 June, 1943) [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Frank George Stanley Bilney RAFVR 1291037 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Kenneth Ealy Oclee RAFVR 1721802 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant William Bowers RAFVR 1815873 [Killed]
Sources:
http://www.spurensuche-owl.de/front_content.php?idart=100
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 125.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LW580&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
Bing Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 19 September 1942 | W7777 | 158 Sqn RAF | 5 | Geislautern, Völklingen, Saarland | |
w/o |
| 15 February 1944 | HX348 | 158 Sqn RAF | 0 | Trappe, Sønderborg, Syddanmark |  |
w/o |
| 25 May 1944 | LV918 | 158 Sqn RAF | 4 | over Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 13-Jul-2015 17:31 | gerard57 | Added |
| 08-Jan-2016 14:48 | JIXN | Updated [Operator] |
| 08-Jun-2016 15:07 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Nov-2018 20:00 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 01-Apr-2021 18:31 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 22-Mar-2024 07:48 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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