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Date: | Thursday 23 September 1943 |
Time: | 22:55 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ED868 |
MSN: | OF-A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Ruchheim, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bourn, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:39 hrs (local time) for an operation against Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg.
The aircraft was shot down by Leutnant Heinz Bock of the 8./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield in the Netherlands.
Note: coned by searchlights.
All seven rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ED868&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact Google Maps
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