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Date: | Wednesday 20 May 1942 |
Time: | 01:35 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W1101 |
MSN: | TL-S |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 200 metres north of Heuchelheim bei Frankenthal, Rheinland-Pfalz -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:30 hrs for an operation to Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and hit by heavy (schwere) Flak.
The crew were initially buried near the crash site. After hostilities had ceased they were reinterred in Durnbach War Cemetery:
Pilot: NZ403987 Flt Sgt Dudley Herman Reed RNZAF - Durnbach War Cemetery 2. D. 13.
Flight Engineer:297975 Sgt Edward James Morris - Durnbach War Cemetery 2. D. 15.
Observer:400504 Sgt Frederick D’Orsa Hunter RAAF - Durnbach War Cemetery 2. D. 14.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1169620 Sgt Francis Edwin Flint - Durnbach War Cemetery 2. D. 16.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 950585 Sgt Richard Lionel Prosser - Durnbach War Cemetery 2. D. 18.
Air Gunner: NZ40209 Flt Sgt Leslie Plimmer Russell RNZAF - Durnbach War Cemetery 2. D. 17.
Sources:
CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942
RAAF FATALITIES IN SECOND WORLD WAR AMONG RAAF PERSONNEL SERVING ON ATTACHMENT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SQUADRONS AND SUPPORT UNITS
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W1101 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
28 April 1942 |
W1048 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
0 |
ice-covered Hoklingen lake at Levanger, Trøndelag county |
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w/o |
29 April 1942 |
W1048 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
0 |
Lake Hoklingen about seven miles inland from Fættenfjord |
|
w/o |
17 June 1942 |
W1117 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
6 |
Wintelre, Noord-Brabant |
|
w/o |
29 June 1943 |
HR850 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
1 |
just south of Ülpenich, Zülpich, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
2 December 1943 |
HR876 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
7 |
Benninghoven, Mettmann, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
29-Dec-2017 21:02 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
29-Oct-2019 11:05 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Registration, Operator, Location] |
02-Nov-2019 18:01 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |
20-Apr-2020 12:34 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |