ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50301
Last updated: 21 May 2013
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| Date: | 19-JUL-1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Avro Lancaster I |
| Operator: | Royal Air Force (RAF) |
| Registration: | LL957 |
| C/n / msn: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Roggel, 10 km NW Roermond -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Binbrook, UK |
Crashed during raid on Gelsenkirchen-Buer.
No other history to add re the crash, but our close friend and neighbour Lloyd Leak (Flight Sergeant) is still alive and well after being the only suvivor of this aicraft, then being taken POW. He has recently donated books to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra that he brought back from the POW camp - these were printed in English by their German captors. To this day he cannot remember how he escaped from the aircraft - he regained consciousness after parachuting to the ground. Judy Ford.
Sources:
http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1944%20sec_tcm5-7285.pdf
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Dec-2011 04:34 | Uli Elch | Updated [Total occupants, Total fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Dec-2011 14:29 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 01-Apr-2012 00:44 | Judy Ford | Updated [Narrative] |
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