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| Date: | Saturday 17 April 1943 |
| Time: | 01:08 |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk X |
| Owner/operator: | 431 (Iroquois) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | HE379 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Hochspeyer, 10 km east of Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Bourn |
Coned by searchlights of the 3./Flakscheinwerfer-Abteilung 300 (o) and hit by heavy Flak units.
Target: Mannheim
Call Sign: SE-H
Takeoff time: 21:10
Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant Harry Sutterby RAF 655895 [PoW]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Maurice Richard Hadland RAF 572631 [Killed]
Sergeant Peter Francis Cartwright RAF 1271192 [PoW]
Pilot Officer William Edgar Paton RCAF J/22562 [PoW]
Sergeant Ralph Gustav Rudd RCAF R/130665 [PoW]
Sgt Hadland lies at the Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany (51.529254 / 6.564161)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/wellington/18723-HE3791943-04-17.html
Air Britain: RAF Aircraft HA100 - HZ999, published 1989
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Dec-2011 09:38 | Uli Elch | Added |
| 26-Nov-2015 14:58 | Anon. | Updated [Total fatalities, Narrative, ] |
| 18-Apr-2018 13:31 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 14-Oct-2018 16:07 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator, ] |
| 21-Dec-2024 11:51 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
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