Lancaster PD283 Mk.I - Bombing LE G - 1944-09-11 to 1944-09-12
Squadron: 630 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1944-09-11
Completion Date: 1944-09-12
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: LE G
Target Specific:
Base: East Kirkby
Take Off Time: 20.44
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Crash City: Crashed 0015 12 Sept 1944 at Schmidthachenbach 12 km ENE of Idar-Oberstein.
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable

6 Bomber Group September 11/12, 1944

18 Halifaxes from 424, 429, and 433 squadrons were ordered on a mining operation to Kiel Bay. The crews were over the garden at 15,000 feet, sowing68@1500 lb mines. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)

630 Squadron Lancaster I PD283 LE-G

There are two claims for this aircraft:- Ofw Heinrich Schmidt 2/NJG6 - 70km West of Darmstadt: 2,500m at 00:21.

Hptm Kurt Fladrich 9/NJG4 - Hunsruck NE-N of Trier (RP - RO): 4,200m at 00:21.

Claim by Ofw Schmidt deleted from OKL/RLM NJG6. Confirmed Abschussubersicht rejected. Victory for Hptm Fladrich confirmed on 12 January 1945.

(Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 4 - Theo Boiten)

Crashed at Schmidthachenbach 12 km ENE of Idar-Oberstein.

The crew were intially buried in Schmidthachenbach Cemetery Communal Grave 12. Reinterred 14 May 1948.

source:John Jones London UK

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