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Date: | Tuesday 3 August 1943 |
Time: | 03:29 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W4778 |
MSN: | KM-T |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Waddenzee 10 km NW of Harlingen, Friesland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Dunholme Lodge |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Jabs of the Stab IV./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Leeuwarden airfield.
Takeoff time: 23:47
Crew:
Pilot Sgt. A.R. Moffatt 1219556 RAF Holwerd 43 15 Washed up near Holwerd 13 Aug 43
Flight engineer Sgt. L.G. Croft 1801134 RAF Harlingen E 4 14 Recovered from Waddenzee 3 Aug 43
Navigator F/O. E.B. Kirkham J/22566 RCAF Runnymede Memorial 174
Bomb aimer Sgt. P.L. Swan 1330846 RAF Survived Rescued from sea by German naval vessel. Pow
Wo ag Sgt. S.A. King 1270913 RAF Runnymede Memorial 156
Air gunner Sgt. W.A. Sewell 1672888 RAF Harlingen E 4 13 Recovered from Waddenzee 3 Aug 43
Air gunner Sgt. R.E. Fincham 921069 RAF Pietersbierum 27 2 Washed up a dike near Sexbierum 15 Aug 43
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
https://www.verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2780&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
02-Aug-2018 06:10 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-Oct-2018 10:15 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
14-Jun-2022 21:48 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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