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Date: | Friday 21 July 1944 |
Time: | 01:45 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ND913 |
MSN: | A4-M2 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Oosteind hamlet, Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Witchford |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Witchford at 22:30 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil installation at Meerbeck in Germany.
While flying home, 'Popeye' was intercepted by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Hanneck, Unteroffizier Sacher & Unteroffizier Glöckner of the 5./NJG 1, who had taken off from Deelen airfield at 00:01 hrs, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+QP.
The Lanc crashed 01:45 at Papendrecht, on the north bank of the Merwede river and opposite Dordrecht. All are buried in the general cmetery at Papendrecht:
Fg Off C M Clarey RAAF (KIA)
Sgt H C Luton (KIA)
Sgt E J Line (KIA)
Flt S E Kirkland (KIA)
Sgt D Hancock (KIA)
Sgt A W Middleton (KIA)
Flt Sgt C A Barlow RAAF (KIA)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3889&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 343.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
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17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
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05-May-2013 23:56 |
Anon. |
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25-Jun-2016 20:29 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
28-Oct-2018 16:33 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
22-Oct-2020 19:38 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |