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Date: | Saturday 17 June 1944 |
Time: | 01:10 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 550 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LM134 |
MSN: | BQ-H |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Achterberg, Rhenen, Utrecht -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF North Killingholme |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF North Killingholme at 23:10 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Sterkrade/Holten in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Heinz Strüning & Oberleutnant Fritz-Konrad Apel of the 3./NJG 1, who had taken off from Venlo airfield in Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+CL; crashed between Achterberg and Veenendaal> five are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, and include Fg Off RCAF who came from Buenos Aires in Argentina, while three are buried in Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery:
Crew
Pilot: J/24170 Fg Off Donald Fullerton Neilson RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 247.
2nd Pilot: J/86549 Plt Off John Kay Murray RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 252.
Flight Engineer: 909926 Sgt Joseph Edward Legg - Runnymede Memorial Panel 233.
Navigator: J/23259 Fg Off Harold Beverly Brett RCAF - Amersfoort (Old Leusden) General Cemetery Plot 13 Row 9 Joint Grave 190.
Bomb Aimer: NZ/39061 Flt Lt Alexander Donovan McConnell DFC RNZAF - Amersfoort (Old Leusden) General Cemetery Plot 13 Row 1 Grave 1.
Wireless Operator: 1395217 Sgt Arthur Thomas Paget - Runnymede Memorial Panel 235.
Mid Upper Gunner: 1894355 Sgt Ernest William Webb - Amersfoort (Old Leusden) General Cemetery Plot 13 Row 9 Joint Grave 190.
Rear Gunner: 591199 Sgt James Morris McKay - Runnymede Memorial Panel 233.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3813&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 287.
http://www.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/t3813/ https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.rebecq-memorial.eu/rhenen.php&prev=search https://www.flickr.com/photos/550squadron/3008793545/in/photostream/ Revision history:
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