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Date: | Saturday 29 August 1942 |
Time: | 02:48 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R5502 |
MSN: | OF-M |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Rue des Vaulx, Maurage, La Louvière, Hainaut -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 21:02 hrs for an operation to Nürnberg in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Adolf Brandstetter of the 9./NJG 4, who was flying a Bf 110 from Laon-Athies airfield in France.
The victims were the Australian pilot, F/Sgt John H. Dinning RAAF, Sgt William E. Spooner, his flight engineer, - Sgt Ellis V. Cope, the navigator - Sgt Victor A. Hamon, the bomb aimer - Sgt Charles H. Brummitt, the wireless operator - Sgt Harold J. Endley, the mid-upper gunner, and Sgt Brian Quinn, the tail gunner.
All rest in the Gosselies communal cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/lancaster-te-maurage http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R5502 Google Maps
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