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Date: | Saturday 17 June 1944 |
Time: | 01:53 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 101 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LM474 |
MSN: | SR-X2 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 8 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Volkel Airfield, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Ludford Magna |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Ludford Magna at 23:41 on ABC duties in support of the RAF Bomber Command Sterkrade/Holten raid (Germany).
The aircraft was shot down from 20,000 ft by a night fighter and crashed near Volkel airfield, 2 km SSE of Uden, where those who died were taken for burial. Claims were submitted by Oblt. Alfons Köster (Stab III./NJG 2 / Junkers Ju 88 G-1) and by Lt. Gottfried Hanneck (6./NJG 1 / Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4).
Since 1945, Fg Off Adair RCAF has been reinterred in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery. Sgt James was the specialist operator:
Plt Off G G Welch RCAF (KIA)
Sgt B Tower (POW)
Fg Off D T McKillop RCAF (POW)
Fg Off D K Adair RCAF (KIA)
Sgt P West (POW)
Sgt R H James (KIA)
Flt Sgt J S Winder RCAF (KIA)
Sgt W V Ireland RCAF (KIA)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3809&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
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Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 285.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
04-Jan-2011 02:44 |
gwsadair |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Narrative] |
16-Jun-2016 18:22 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
09-Oct-2018 05:32 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
09-Oct-2020 07:24 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
09-Oct-2020 07:26 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
16-Jun-2022 08:31 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |