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Date: | Friday 31 March 1944 |
Time: | 00:26 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 12 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ND562 |
MSN: | PH-D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | north of Holzheim, Mechernich, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wickenby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 21:55 hrs for an operation to Nürnberg in Bayern.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was claimed shot down by Feldwebel Wolfram Möckel of the 6./NJG 2 (flying a Ju 88C from Deelen airfield in the Netherlands) and by Hauptmann Gerhard Raht of the 4./NJG 3 based at Fliegerhorst Langendiebach in Hessen.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/cook-alistair.html Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
31-Mar-2020 08:01 |
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