1944 Grafenberg Wald Avro Lancaster shootdown
Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster · Shot down by German night fighter after bombing raid on Essen
From Wickenby Aerodrome (EGNW) to Essen, Germany (target)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 5 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 3
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Avro Lancaster
- Aircraft type
- Avro LANCASTER
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- PH-U
- Operator
- Royal Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Route
- From Wickenby Aerodrome (EGNW)To Essen, Germany (target)
Approximate · Estimated position: Ludenberg, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1944 Grafenberg Wald Avro Lancaster shootdown occurred on 12 December 1944 during World War II when an Avro Lancaster bomber of the Royal Air Force was shot down by a German Luftwaffe night fighter and crashed in the Wildpark im Grafenberger Wald, in Ludenberg, a district of Düsseldorf.
Shootdown
Shortly after dropping its bombs over Essen, the Lancaster was intercepted and shot at by a German night fighter of the I. Gruppe of NJG 11 and caught fire. It crashed near Düsseldorf. The attacking aircraft was a Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 (serial number 166455, call sign "Red 4") piloted by Leutnant Gustav Mohr.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 1944 Grafenberg Wald Avro Lancaster shootdown
- Revision
- 1339298066 · 2026-02-19 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q101113024
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "1944 Grafenberg Wald Avro Lancaster shootdown" (page 80043521, revision 1339298066)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.