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Date: | Tuesday 24 August 1943 |
Time: | 00:50 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 83 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JA927 |
MSN: | OL-O |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Horstfelde, Zossen, Brandenburg -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wyton, Huntingdonshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft was coned by searchlights and claimed shot down by two night fighter pilots:
- Oberleutnant Günther Stege of the 8./NJG 3, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from probably Lüneburg airfield.
- Oberleutnant Heinz Rökker of the 1./NJG 2, flying Bf 110 G-4 'R4+CA' from Gilze-Rijen airfield, the Netherlands.
Takeoff time: 20:20
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer John Alexander Reid RAFVR 144464 [Killed] (NCO:1425594 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 08 June, 1943)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Arthur Edwin Best RAFVR 908515 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Andrew James Ewen Brown RAFVR 147318 [Killed] (NCO:1348005 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 03 August, 1943)
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer William Wardrop RAFVR 148476 [Killed] (NCO:1237958 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 31 August, 1943)
Wireless Operator : Pilot Officer Peter Theobald Beszant RAFVR 156574 [Killed] (NCO:1330566 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 12 October, 1943)
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Sydney Hatton RAFVR 1304766 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Alfred Cousins RAFVR 1324365 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JA927 Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
29-Aug-2018 12:45 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
03-Nov-2018 20:43 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
18-May-2023 17:53 |
Rob Davis |
Updated |
18-May-2023 17:59 |
Anon. |
Updated |