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Date: | Saturday 29 July 1944 |
Time: | 01:07 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 90 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PB198 |
MSN: | WP-M |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Saulxures-lès-Bulgnéville (Vosges) -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Tuddenham |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Tuddenham at 21:50. Crashed at Saulxures-les-Bulgneville (Vosges), 3 km SW from the town of Bulgneville. All rest in the communal cemetery at Saulxures-les-Bulgneville:
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer John Donald Morton RCAF J/88266 : Commission Gazetted Friday 20 December, 1940) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Dennis James Ingram RAFVR 1711742 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Myron Fetchison RCAF J/88486 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Wilfred Jean Paul Huot RCAF R/159901 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Walter Charles Pomfret RAFVR 1392396 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Hugh Donald Hilts RCAF R/256204 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Edward Laverne Eitel RCAF R/191621 [Killed]
The aircraft was shot down by Hauptmann Hubert Rauh of the Stab II./NJG 4, who had taken off from Coulommiers airfield in Seine-et-Marne.
Sources:
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 360.http://aircrewremembered.com/morton-john.html
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=1444 Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Aug-2013 17:53 |
JINX |
Added |
28-Jun-2016 12:48 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
31-Oct-2018 19:41 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
12-Jun-2021 09:21 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
06-Apr-2024 10:00 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |