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Date: | Sunday 2 January 1944 |
Time: | 03:00 approx |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 83 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ND354 |
MSN: | OL-A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 8 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Lutten, Goldenstedt, Niedersachsen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 00:11 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Wendelin Breukel of the 5./NJG 2 (based at Deelen airfield in the Netherlands), who was flying a Ju 88 C-6.
The seven crew members who did not survive rest at the Sage War Cemetery.
For more info, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ND354 Media:
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Nov-2019 18:28 |
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