…seems pretty sure of his facts so i think we have a match.

Possibly, probably even, but a note of caution:

All I did was look for a Lancaster lost on the night of 30/31 March 1944 near the locations you posted…..and I failed to find any…

…but by progressively referencing the crash location to the next biggest/nearest place R5546 was the first Lancaster to ‘fit’ the date, time and other facts that were presented.

Of course it doesn’t follow that the recovered parts are definitely from this Lancaster (or even a Lancaster at all) but they certainly could be. Thousands of RAF bombers were lost over Germany during the war and I’ve made no attempt to eliminate any bomber that crashed close to this location a week, a month or a year before or after this date.

I don’t know anything about ‘Luftwaffen Revue’ but if it was a wartime publication its primary purpose was surely one of propaganda (as would be the case for a similar RAF publication). While it will have some facts in it, everything in it may not be fact.

The time given by the witness is almost certainly a local time but I have to say I’m always amazed how witnesses remember dates from so long ago, especially when the witness wasn’t seriously or directly affected by an event…

…I have trouble remembering the date of something that happened last year…..not sixty-five years ago! 😀