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Date: | Thursday 24 February 1944 |
Time: | 21:48 approx |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 100 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB604 |
MSN: | HW-S |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | a mill at Marly, Moselle (57), Grand Est -
France
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Grimsby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 18:16 hrs for an operation to Schweinfurt in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin of the Stab II./NJG 1, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+BC from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Belgium.
Oberfeldwebel Reinhard Kollak of the 8./NJG 4 also filed a claim for this aircraft.
For the crew, see France-Crashes 39-45.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=780 Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Jan-2020 09:38 |
TigerTimon |
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