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Date: | Thursday 23 September 1943 |
Time: | 22:56 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JA708 |
MSN: | OF-P |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | west of Edenkoben, Rheinland-Pfalz (claim location) -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bourn, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:30 hrs (local time) for an operation against Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg.
The aircraft was shot down by the crew of Unteroffizier Josef Brunner & Oberleutnant Fritz-Konrad Apel of the 2./NJG 1, who had taken off from Venlo airfield (the Netherlands) at 21:25 hrs, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+FL.
Those who perished rest in the Rheinberg War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JA708&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Jun-2021 14:39 |
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