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Date: | Tuesday 25 April 1944 |
Time: | 02:40 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LM486 |
MSN: | BH-C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea 10 km West of Vlissingen, Zeeland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Faldingworth, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:09 hrs for an operation to Karlsruhe in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the Stab IV./NJG 1, who had left St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield (Belgium) in Bf 110 G-4 G9+DF at 02:40.
Crew:-
Pilot : Squadron Leader Ludwik Kurowski PAF [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Flight Sergeant Wladyslaw Pruss PAF [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Zbigniew Woch PAF [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Wladyslaw Karalun PAF [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant Karol Krysiak PAF [Killed]
Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Jozef Walecki PAF [Killed]
Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Michal Wijtyk PAF [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LM486 Google Maps
ORB 300 Sqdn RAF
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Apr-2020 13:18 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
03-Apr-2020 13:28 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
17-May-2020 14:44 |
Anon. |
Updated [Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
22-Oct-2020 21:40 |
Fanda |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
22-Oct-2020 21:41 |
Fanda |
Updated [Source, Operator] |