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Date: | Sunday 16 August 1942 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 106 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R5678 |
MSN: | ZN-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Düsseldorf-Lörick -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 00:20 hrs local time for an operation to Düsseldorf.
The aircraft was hit by the 3./schwere Flak-Abteilung 407 and crashed.
All eight rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R5678 Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
16-May-2020 18:03 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
21-Feb-2021 17:17 |
TB |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location] |