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Date: | Wednesday 11 August 1943 |
Time: | 00:37 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 49 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ED625 |
MSN: | EA-R |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Bad Kreuznach, Rheinland-Pfalz -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Fiskerton |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Heinrich Wohlers of the Stab I./NJG 6, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Mainz-Finthen airfield.
Takeoff time: 21:46
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Jack Herbert Moss RAF 145509 [PoW] (NCO:1330663 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 29 June, 1943)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Ernest Howard Roden RAFVR 1226671 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant David George Charles Jones RAFVR 1335684 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Leonard Frank Bradfield RAF 1559222 [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Ronald John Small RAFVR 1313073 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Terence Albert Wood RAFVR 1236752 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Charles Ronald Musson RAF 658293 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ED625 Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Aug-2018 14:52 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
30-Oct-2018 05:06 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
10-Aug-2023 06:42 |
Rob Davis |
Updated |