Squadron: 460 (B) Sqn (RAAF)
Start Date: 1944-06-11
Completion Date: 1944-06-11
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Acheres France
Target Specific: railway facilities
Base: RAF Binsbrook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Take Off Time: 23:13
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Crash City: Elancourt, France
Crash Specifics: 1 km W of Trappe, & 25 km SW of Paris
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: piloterror
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460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft ME696 hit high tension wires during night operations on the railway facilities at Acheres, France. Casualties included RCAF P/O's W.L. Arksey (air gunner and A.J. Collett (air gunner); RAAF Flt. Sgt. K.L. King (bomb aimer) and Pilot Officer R.L. Nicholson (pilot); and RAFVR Sgt's. C.A. Cunningham (flight engineer), A. Fisher (navigator), and J.P. Murray (wireless operator / air gunner).
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460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft ME696 hit high tension wires during night operations on the railway facilities at Acheres, France. Casualties included RCAF P/O's W.L. Arksey (air gunner and A.J. Collett (air gunner); RAAF Flt. Sgt. K.L. King (bomb aimer) and Pilot Officer R.L. Nicholson (pilot); and RAFVR Sgt's. C.A. Cunningham (flight engineer), A. Fisher (navigator), and J.P. Murray (wireless operator / air gunner).
