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Date: | Friday 18 August 1944 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 103 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PB363 |
MSN: | PM-F |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Le Nieppe, Ruisscheure; département du Nord (target area) -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Elsham Wolds |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Elsham Wolds at 19:06 hrs to attack a flying bomb site at Le Nieppe.
Hit by Flak. Those who perished rest in Longuenesse (St-Omer) Souvenir Cemetery:
Plt off J P Austin (Killed on Active Service)
Sgt J J Halliday (PoW)
Sgt P J Potts (PoW)
Sgt N H A Osmond (PoW)
Sgt K G Webb (Killed on Active Service)
Sgt J F Wright (PoW)
Sgt S Hamilton (Killed on Active Service)
Sources:
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Froce Bomber Command Losses of the Second World war 1944 Page 389.
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=1480 Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Aug-2013 16:59 |
JINX |
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03-Jun-2015 07:18 |
Weeks |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
03-Jul-2016 14:55 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
16-Oct-2018 18:47 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
15-Jun-2021 17:46 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |