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Date: | Friday 24 March 1944 |
Time: | 23:34 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 61 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB129 |
MSN: | QR-G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Rimbeck, Warburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 18:49 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Peter Ehrhardt of the 8./NJG 5, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Werneuchen airfield in Brandenburg.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/cox-john-grant.html Google Maps
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