AIRCRAFT PROFILE |
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Aircraft: |
NN711 |
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Lancaster Mk. I |
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AIRCRAFT HISTORY |
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25 Nov 1943 |
Initial record to be updated when first event found |
UL-L2 |
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576 Squadron OPERATIONS |
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Date |
Operation |
Captain |
Events |
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UL-L2 |
03 Sep 1944 |
EINDHOVEN |
Fg Off S.F. Durrant |
Luftwaffe airfield. Spitfire escort Load: 13x 1000lb, 4x 500lb bombs One aircraft (unidentified) diverted due to weather. |
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UL-L2 |
05 Sep 1944 |
LE HAVRE |
Fg Off S.F. Durrant |
Enemy strongpoints & HQ in port area Load: 13x 1000lb, 4x 500lb bombs Not bombed up in time. |
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UL-L2 |
06 Sep 1944 |
LE HAVRE |
Fg Off S.F. Durrant |
Enemy strongpoints & pockets of resistance Load: 13x 1000lb, 4x500lb bombs |
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UL-L2 |
08 Sep 1944 |
LE HAVRE |
Fg Off S.F. Durrant |
Enemy strongoints to the north of the town & pockets of resistance Load: 13x 1000lb, 4x 500lb bombs 10 Aircraft allocated Aiming Point 12, 5 aircraft allocated Aiming Point 13 Master Bomber instructed crews who had not bombed to return with their bombs due to increasing low cloud cover. |
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UL-L2 |
10 Sep 1944 |
LE HAVRE |
Fg Off S.F. Durrant |
Enemy strongpoint ½ mile SW of the Forêt de Montgeon Load: 13x 1000lb, 4x500lb bombs. Port surrenders. |
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UL-L2 |
12 Sep 1944 |
FRANKFURT |
Fg Off S.F. Durrant |
Marshaling yards Load: A2 & D2: 10x 1000lb, 1x 500lb bombs All other a/c: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’, 14x Type 14 incendiary clusters, 120x 4lb incendiaries One aircraft (unidentified) bombed a Last Resort Target. |
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UL-L2 |
15 Sep 1944 |
PALLAU, POLWYSEP-HEL, & ARNHOLT |
Fg Off S.F. Durrant |
Gardening *Mis-spelt in ORBs Load: A2 & B2: 4x 1800lb, 5x 1500lb mines All iother a/c: 4x 1800lb, 6x 1500lb mines Area ‘A’ PALLAU Pillau ‘Tangerine’ 2 a/c Area ‘B’ POLWYSEP HEL Gdynia ‘Spinach’ 6 a/c Area ‘C’ ARNHOLT Kattegat ‘Silverthorne’ 2/ac This aircraft Garden: Silverthorne (Anholt) |
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UL-L2 |
16 Sep 1944 |
LEEUWARDEN |
Fg Off S.F. Durrant |
Luftwaffe Airfield (flown in support of Operation MARKET GARDEN) Load: 20x 500lb bombs. |
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UL-L2 |
20 Sep 1944 |
CALAIS (SANGATTE) |
Fg Off S.F. Durrant |
Coastal guns & defences Load: 13x 1000lb, 4x 500lb bombs. |
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UL-L2 |
23 Sep 1944 |
NEUSS |
Fg Off S.F. Durrant |
Marshalling Yards Load: 12x 1000lb, 4x 500lb bombs. Attacked by Oblt. Lothar Jarsch of 4./NJG2 at 2229 and at 3,500m (also claimed by a flak battery). Crashed at Kappelen, near Duisburg. All the crew were killed and buried initially at Kappelen Communal Cemetery and re-interred on 26 Oct 47 at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen. 30.F.13 ASLEEP IN GOD'S BEAUTIFUL GARDEN. TOO DEARLY LOVED TO BE FORGOTTEN |
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NOSE ART |
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Default Nose Image - Waiting for design |
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AIRCRAFT IMAGES |
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MOVEMENT CARDS |
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LOSS CARDS |
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