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Date: | Friday 21 July 1944 |
Time: | 01:45 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 90 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LM185 |
MSN: | WP-D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Nederwettensestraat street, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Tuddenham |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Tuddenham at 23:02 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil installation at Meerbeck in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Josef Förster of the 8./NJG 2, who had taken off from Volkel airfield at 00:20 hrs, in Junkers Ju 88 G-1 4R+OS.
The Lanc crashed at around 01:45 into the suburbs of Boxtel, where five rest in Heilig Hart Van Jesus Roman Catholic Churchyard. Both air gunners ar buried at Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemtery. At 35 Sgt Naylor was over the age associated with airmen flying operationally with Bomber Command:
Flt Sgt W Lane (KIA)
Sgt E J Flaherty (KIA)
Sgt W N Morgan (KIA)
Flt H McB Brown (KIA)
Sgt P H Richardson (KIA)
Sgt A F Marshall (KIA)
Sgt RP Taylor (KIA)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3887&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 342.
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