AIRCRAFT PROFILE

Aircraft:

LL830

Type:

Lancaster Mk. I

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AIRCRAFT HISTORY

Date

Event

Sqn Code

25 Nov 1943

Initial record to be updated when first event found

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576 Squadron OPERATIONS

Code

Date

Operation

Captain

Events

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20 Feb 1944

AIR TEST

Flt Sgt W.A. Scheerboom

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15 Mar 1944

STUTTGART

Flt Sgt W.A. Scheerboom

Target: Built-up area. Load: 1x 4000lb 'cookie', 96x 30lb and 750x 4lb incendiaries.

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18 Mar 1944

FRANKFURT

Flt Sgt A.H. Young

Target: Built-up area. Load: 1x 4000lb 'cookie', 108x 30lb incendiaries, 1062x 4lb incendiaries

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22 Mar 1944

FRANKFURT

Fg Off F.S. Barnsdale

Target: Built-up area Load: 1x 4,000lb ‘Cookie’, 108x 30lb and 1,062x 4lb incendiaries

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24 Mar 1944

BERLIN

Fg Off F.S. Barnsdale

Target: Built-up area Load: 1x 4,000lb ‘Cookie’, 108x 30lb and 924x 4lb incendiaries

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26 Mar 1944

ESSEN

Fg Off F.S. Barnsdale

Target: Built-up area Load: 1x 4,000lb ‘Cookie’, 108x 30lb and 1,170x 4lb incendiaries

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30 Mar 1944

NUREMBERG

Fg Off F.S. Barnsdale

Target: Built-up area Load: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’, 108x 30lb and 1,020x 4lb incendiaries Attacked by Bf-109; returned fire, but no damage was sustained to either aircraft

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10 Apr 1944

AULNOYE

Flt Lt F.S. Barnsdale

Target: Marshalling yards Load: 12x 1,000lb and 4x 500lb bombs Likely take off time 2320, but this is not shown in the Squadron records. The aircraft was shot down by Hauptmann Helmut Bergmann of 6/ NJG-4 in his Bf-110 at 0230 to the north of Solesmes (the second of seven bombers he shot down that night in just 46 minutes). The aircraft came down in Haussy, 10 miles E of Cambrai; there were no survivors

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