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Date: | Sunday 2 January 1944 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 405 (Vancouver) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | JB737 |
MSN: | LQ-R |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, Pas-de-Calais (62) -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Gransden Lodge, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 00:37 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Ludwig Meister of the 1./NJG 4, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 3C+SJ from Florennes airfield in Belgium.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB737 http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=948 Google Maps
Revision history:
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12-Dec-2019 08:29 |
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12-Dec-2019 08:30 |
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12-Dec-2019 08:30 |
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