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Date: | Thursday 13 May 1943 |
Time: | 23:57 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 50 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ED693 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Messingen, 7 km ESE of Lingen, Ems, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Hans-Heinz Augenstein of the 7./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield, the Netherlands.
Target: Plzeň
Call Sign: VN-
Takeoff time: 21:59
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer William Goode Pickens RCAF J/17387 [PoW]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant C Taylor RAF [PoW]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Michael Hall RAF 124701 (NCO:657238 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 01 September, 1942) [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant John Gordon Hanby RAF 1315443 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Flying Officer Thomas Royds RAF 127861 (NCO:1023693 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 22 September, 1942) [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant William Augustus Roberts RAFVR 1323253 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Warrant Officer Class II William Bruce Nichol RCAF R/114904 [Killed]
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany (51.740880 / 6.082017):-
W/ONichol RCAF, Grave Ref. 15.F. 12 and
Sgt Roberts RAFVR, Grave Ref. 15.F.11.
P/O Hall was interned in Stalag Luft L3 as POW# 1326
F/O Royds also interned in L3 as POW# 1413.
Sgt. Hanby was interned in camps L1 and also 357 as POW# 1181
Sgt.Pickens was interned in Camp L1 as POW# 1196
Sgt Taylor was interned in Camp L1, L6 and L4 as POW# 1201
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/lancaster/25836-ED6931943-05-14.html No. 50 Squadron Royal Air Force In World War Two - No.50 & No.61 ... (PDF)
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-May-2018 19:38 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
03-Nov-2018 20:24 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
22-Jun-2022 05:03 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
22-Jun-2022 05:10 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
23-Jun-2022 08:43 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
12-May-2024 06:42 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |