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Date: | Sunday 20 September 1942 |
Time: | 03:28 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R5554 |
MSN: | KM-Q |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Forêt de Mormal forest, Locquignol municipality, département du Nord -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - München, Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Herget & Feldwebel Liebherr of the 9./NJG 4, who were flying a Bf 110 from Juvincourt airfield.
Those who did not survive rest in the Maubeuge-Centre cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=378 Google MapsNotes
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=812 Revision history:
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