Crash Location Avro Lancaster Mk I ME700 VN-V

Crash Site Avro Lancaster Mk I ME700 VN-V

Taken off from RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire on 23 September 1944 at 18:43 for a bombing raid on the Dortmund-Ems Canal near Ladbergen (Germany).

On the way home the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Schmidt, Feldwebel Schönfeld & Feldwebel Schlosser of the 8./NJG 1, flying the Bf 110 G-4 G9+AS from Werl airfield in Germany.

Pilot / F/Lt. OG Korpela J/24402 RCAF / escaped
Flight Engineer / Sgt. H. MacFarlane 1822135 RAF / Escaped
Navigator / F/Sgt. E.H. Tunnell 1395660 RAF / Dalfsen cemetery
Bombsight / F/O. CD. Lucas 153271 RAF / escaped
Radio / Gunner / Sgt. R. Larcombe 1332939 Cemetery RAF / Dalfsen
Center Top Gunner / F/O. AB Harvey J/38162 RCAF / Dalfsen cemetery
Rear gunner / F/O. J.M. Dunsmuir J/21396 RCAF / Dalfsen cemetery

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Stefan Hendriks (1, 2), Robert Groenhuis (3, 4)

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