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Date: | Friday 31 March 1944 |
Time: | 00:17 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 166 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ND798 |
MSN: | AS-C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 8 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Griesenbach, Buchholz, Rheinland-Pfalz -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Kirmington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:02 hrs for an operation to Nürnberg in Bayern.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Hans Schäfer of the 7./NJG 2, who had taken off from Twente airfield in the Netherlands at 23:21 hrs, in Ju 88 R4+BR.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Walter Henry Burnett RAFVR 171640 (NCO:1287372 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 18 April, 1944) [Killed]
2nd Pilot : Pilot Officer Victor William Reginald Park RAF 172302 (NCO:1800901 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 04 April, 1944) [PoW]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant James Toole RAF 1684897 [PoW]
Navigator : Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd Edwin Edmunds RCAF 87093 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Richard Harrington Bannister RCAF R/145314 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Albert Binder RAF 1146522 [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Peter Henry Brown RAFVR 1305927 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Frank Storer RAFVR 1085739 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ND798 Google MapsRob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
31-Mar-2020 10:16 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
22-Mar-2024 15:19 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |