Squadron: 460 Sqn (RAAF)
Start Date: 1944-05-22
Completion Date: 1944-05-22
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Duisburg Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Take Off Time: 22:29
Squadron Code: AR C
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Crash Specifics: Langeschouw, Schijf
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: night fighter crew of Hauptmann Strüning & Oberleutnant Apel of the 3./NJG 1, who were flying Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+EL from Venlo airfield
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft LL 951 was delivered to 460 Squadron in Apr 1944. Homeward-bound after night operations against Duisburg, Germany, it was shot down by a night fighter. Casualties included RCAF Flying Officer R.E. McDougall (pilot); RAFVR Sgt's. H.R. Elsbury (air gunner), J. Herkes (wireless operator / air gunner), and W.F. O'Neill (air gunner); and Flt. Sgt. R.R. Bunker (navigator). Taken Prisoners of War were RAF Sgt. W.S. Leaney and RAF Flying Officer E. O'Donoghue.
6 Group Unavailable
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft LL 951 was delivered to 460 Squadron in Apr 1944. Homeward-bound after night operations against Duisburg, Germany, it was shot down by a night fighter. Casualties included RCAF Flying Officer R.E. McDougall (pilot); RAFVR Sgt's. H.R. Elsbury (air gunner), J. Herkes (wireless operator / air gunner), and W.F. O'Neill (air gunner); and Flt. Sgt. R.R. Bunker (navigator). Taken Prisoners of War were RAF Sgt. W.S. Leaney and RAF Flying Officer E. O'Donoghue.
