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Date: | Tuesday 13 June 1944 |
Time: | 01:31 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | HK545 |
MSN: | KO-E |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 3 km west of Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Witchford, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:32 hrs for a bombing operation against the Nordstern synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Modrow & Unteroffizier Schneider of the 1./NJG 1, who were flying He 219 A-0 G9+AH from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.
The seven crew members rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=HK545&o=DateIncident&d=asc Revision history:
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