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Date: | Thursday 16 March 1944 |
Time: | 00:56 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 630 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ND530 |
MSN: | LE-P |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Mont-sur-Courville, Marne (51) -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF East Kirkby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:12 hrs for an operation to Stuttgart in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Dietrich Schmidt of the 8./NJG 1, who had taken off from Saint-Dizier airfield in Bf 110 G-4 G9+AS.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Leonard Alfred Barnes RAF 168998 (NCO:1252954 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 25 January, 1944) [Evaded]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant K A Walker RAF 1583707 [Evaded]
Navigator : Sergeant Malcolm Elliott Gregg RAF 1576438 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Malcolm Geisler RAF 151194 (NCO:659047 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 11 May, 1943) [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant George Edmund Plowman RAF 1333979 [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant James Henry Overholt RCAF R/197141 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Thomas Austin Fox RAFVR 1433606 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.630squadron.co.uk/Aircraft/ND530/nd530.html Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-Jan-2020 19:11 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
15-Mar-2024 08:13 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |