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Date: | Thursday 13 May 1943 |
Time: | 23:42 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 106 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R5611 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Haarstraat, Rossum, Overijssel -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Syerston |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Herbert Lütje of the 8./NJG 1 (flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield) and crashed at Rossum (Overijssel), 5 km north of Oldenzaal. All buried in Weerselo Roman Catholic Cemetery (Rossum).
Target: Plzeň
Call Sign: ZN-W
Takeoff time: 21:30
Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant Francis James Howell RAFVR 1384397 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Duncan Grey RAFVR 1244614 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant William Bill Hiram Hill RCAF R/115769 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Ernest George Ronald Beacham RAFVR 1338277 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Robert William Littlefair RAFVR 1294785 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Leslie Allan Dunmore RAFVR 1320264 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Warrant Officer Class II Douglas Seldon Mitchell RCAF R/88029 : Commission Gazetted Friday 20 December, 1940) [Killed]
All lie at the Weerselo (Rossum) Roman Catholic Cemetery, Netherlands (52.352139 / 6.922431)
Sources:
1.
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2294&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= 2. Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
3. Commonwealth War Graves Commission Register
4. William Chorley Bomber Command Losses 1942
5. Internet articles
6.
http://oorlogsdodendinkelland.nl/slachtoffers/oude-gemeente-weerselo/ 7. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
04-Sep-2010 09:50 |
Snowy |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
22-Jul-2016 16:20 |
Bert |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
11-May-2018 18:53 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
28-Oct-2018 12:52 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
08-Jun-2022 17:14 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
12-May-2024 06:52 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |