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Date: | Sunday 20 February 1944 |
Time: | 01:46-59 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 166 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ME637 |
MSN: | AS-F |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea 15 km NW of Ameland, Friesland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Kirmington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:50 hrs for an operation against aircraft assembly factories at Leipzig in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Heinz Vinke of the 11./NJG 1 (based at the Leeuwarden and Bergen airfields), who was flying a Bf 110 G-4.
All seven crew members are missing in action and are commemorated at the Runnymede Memorial.
For their names, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ME637 Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Dec-2019 13:39 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
15-Jun-2022 04:21 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |