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Date: | Saturday 22 April 1944 |
Time: | 23:32 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 7 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ND592 |
MSN: | MG-J |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Maizy (Aisne) -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Oakington |
Narrative:Coded MG-J: Airborne 21:24 22 Apr 1944 from Oakington, tasked to bomb the railway yards at Laon. Shot down by Unteroffizier Konrad Beyer of the 1./NJG 4, who was flying from Florennes airfield in Belgium; crashed and exploded at Maizy (Aisne), a village on the S bank of the Aisne approx. 28 km SSE of Laon. All are buried in Maizy Churchyard:
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Percy Ronald Aslett RAF 54222 (NCO:547488 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 14 March, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Flight Sergeant James Wilfred Bott RAFVR 1765035 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Hugh Boys Cooper RAFVR 172104 (NCO:926206 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 04 April, 1944) [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Thomas Horton RAFVR 1545049 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant Laurence Alfred Scott RAFVR 1382694 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Francis William Ingham RAFVR 2216043 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer Leon Francis George Noakes DFC RAFVR 171457 (NCO:903074 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 14 March, 1944) [Killed]
Sources:
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft NA100 - NZ999, published 1992
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 183.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
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04-Oct-2011 23:58 |
whiteshark |
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26-Dec-2011 05:34 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Registration] |
26-Dec-2011 05:51 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Registration, Cn, Narrative] |
26-Dec-2011 07:01 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
08-Jan-2012 11:13 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
30-Jan-2012 00:41 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
29-Aug-2013 17:34 |
JINX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Narrative] |
10-Jun-2016 07:37 |
Anon. |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
12-Nov-2018 16:58 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
15-May-2021 19:09 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
22-Apr-2024 06:43 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |