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Date: | Monday 3 January 1944 |
Time: | 01:00-30 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 463 Sqn RAAF |
Registration: | JA902 |
MSN: | JO-D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Noordoostpolder, near Emmeloord, Overijssel -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Waddington at 23:13 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Believed hit by Flak causing bomb load to explode, crashed on low-lying piece of land in the Noordoostpolder.
Four were buried on various dates in Vollenhove (Stad Vollenhove) General Cemetery. The others have no known graves.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Jack Weatherill RAAF Aus/410021 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Albert Edward Cowell RAFVR 1860362 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer John Watson Gage RAFVR 151085 [Killed] (NCO:1323773 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 27 April, 1943)
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Francis Noel Looney RAAF Aus/423290 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant William Donald Toohey RAAF Aus/426401 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer Peter Louis Symonds RAAF Aus/408054 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Colin Hemingway RAAF Aus/417839 [Killed]
Gage, Symonds and Toohey : Runnymede Memorial
Cowell, Hemingway, Looney and Weatherill : Vollenhove General Cemetery
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3280&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 25.
findagrave.com
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/lancaster/Lancaster11262.html https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/t3280/&prev=search Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
04-Jun-2016 13:34 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
11-Nov-2018 12:54 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
26-Nov-2019 09:41 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
26-Nov-2019 09:45 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location] |
12-Jun-2022 03:08 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
17-Jun-2022 21:12 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
02-Jan-2024 07:59 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |