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Date: | Friday 21 July 1944 |
Time: | 01:20 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 405 (Vancouver) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | PB174 |
MSN: | LQ-P |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 8 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Weustboerweg, Reutum, Overijssel -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Gransden Lodge |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Grandsden Lodge at 23:40 hrs for a bombing operation against Bottrop in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Martin Drewes, Kommandeur of III./NJG 1, who had taken off from Leeuwarden airfield at 00:25 hrs in Bf 110 G-4 G9+MD; crashed at Reutum, 11 km ENE of Almelo. In turn, Drewes and his crew of Fw. Erich Handke & Ofw. Georg Petz were forced to evacuate the Messerschmitt when the Lancaster exploded.
The rear gun turret of PB174 was blown free in the explosion, the gunner succeeding in extricating himself and pulling the release cord of his parachute, as the only survivor of his crew.
Those who died rest in Tubbergen Roman Catholic Cemetery next to six airman from 625 Squadron who Lancaster crashed while on operations to Berlin in March.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant James Denholm Virtue RCAF J/7905 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Patrick Neil Gilbert RAFVR 1582850 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Joseph John Raymond Johnson RCAF J/24921 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Vernon Fairbank Dodds RCAF J/89743 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Anthony Gerard McCarthy RAFVR 169703 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Pilot Officer Alfred Joseph Britts RCAF J/88665 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Thomas Davenport RAFVR 1354430 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant M S Stoyko RCAF 167132 [PoW]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3892&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Foce Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 340.
*www.rafinfo.org.uk/BCWW2Losses/1944.htm
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
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17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
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25-Aug-2013 13:40 |
JINX |
Updated [Operator, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
05-Nov-2014 16:51 |
Wilbur |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
24-May-2015 20:27 |
Z. Zeeland |
Updated [Operator] |
25-Jun-2016 21:22 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
23-Sep-2017 17:49 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |
06-Oct-2018 18:04 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |
13-Oct-2018 16:49 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport] |
22-Oct-2020 17:48 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
22-Mar-2024 15:22 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |