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Date: | Wednesday 15 March 1944 |
Time: | 23:45 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB361 |
MSN: | OF-B |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Zillhausen, Balingen, Baden-Württemberg -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bourn, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:20 hrs for an operation to Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg.
The aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Günther Köberich of the 6./NJG 2, who was flying Ju 88 C-6 R4+PP from Quakenbrück airfield in Niedersachsen.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant William Alexander Meyer DFC RAFVR 124514 (NCO:1392070 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 21 July, 1942) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Flight Sergeant Thomas Roy Shaw DFM RAFVR 1039039 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Lieutenant Bernard John Starie DFC RAFVR 133485 (NCO:1600708 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 22 December, 1942) [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Reginald Charles Pike DFM RAFVR 161470 (NCO:1392643 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 21 December, 1943) [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Pilot Officer James Campbell McLeish DFC RAFVR 170615 (NCO:995665 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 22 February, 1944) [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer Archibald Macarthur Barrowman DFC RCAF J/85618 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Roberts DFM RAF 634237 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB361 Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-Jan-2020 17:48 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
15-Mar-2024 07:51 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |