Lancaster NG353

I managed to find a quote in ‘Battles with the Nachtjagd’ from flight engineer Flight Sergeant Ray Base of 115 Squadron flying over Dresden in Lancaster I NG205:

“We experienced moderate flak over the target. As we left the target and turned on course for home we saw a Lancaster about 1000 feet below silhouetted by the glow of the fires. I could see the Lancaster’s exhausts. Our mid-upper gunner then spotted a Ju88 following the Lancaster and then we saw a Ju188 (clearly identified by its pointed wings) to the left and behind the Ju88. There was a small cloud below and the three aircraft went into it and the cloud lit up with a large explosion typical of a bomber blowing up.”

Could this have been the destruction of NG353 of 186 Squadron in a Schräge Musik attack?

Both 115 Squadron and 186 Squadron were part of 3 Group that was part of the second wave of bombing over Dresden between 01:21 and 01:45 so that should have put the two bombers in roughly the same part of the sky at roughly the same time.

Somewhere there must be a record of which wave of bombing that footage of the bombing of Dresden was shot (and probably which aircraft and squadron).

I recently obtained the RAAF service record of one of my relatives who was the pilot of Lancaster NG353. In it are details of the RAF investigation report relating to the loss of the aircraft and the crew which are consistent with the possible eyewitness account referred to here. The RAF report states that the aircraft was attacked by a nightfighter and exploded in mid air. The bodies of the crew and scattered wreckage fell near Johannis Friedhof, so the aircraft was clearly directly over Dresden at the time of the explosion.

If the film footage in question was shot on the 13th of Feb over Dresden the explosion seen in it could well be the destruction of NG353.