ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 144027
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| Date: | Sunday 11 February 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito NF Mk 30 |
| Owner/operator: | 151 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | MM763 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Missing. -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Hunsdon, Hertfordshire |
Mosquito MM763: Took off at 00:55 hrs for a bomber support mission. 11/02/1945
Bomber support operations were carried out, but local weather conditions were not very good.
Some of the sorties were switched to low level but apart from the usual flak associated with low level operations, the sorties were generally uneventful.
From one of these sorties, F/Lt Strauss and F/Lt Forrester-Paton failed to return. The only information as to their fate was that an aircraft was seen going down in the patrol area. Whether this was the 151 crew or not was uncertain
April 14.1945
The news came through that F/Lt Forrester-Paton was a prisoner of war (one of the very few, if not the only one of 151 Sqn, who finished up in the cage), but it was presumed that F/Lt Strauss had been killed.
During the Bomber support operations on which they were flying on February 10, it was finally revealed that F/Lt Strauss with F/Lt Forrester-Paton had a successful combat with a Me 410. It was in this combat that their aircraft was damaged very badly.
Crew:
F/Lt (44546) Jacobus Gustaaf "Johann" STRAUSS (pilot) RAF - killed
F/Lt (116.619) Douglas Shaw FORRESTER- PATON (nav.) RAFVR - POW
Sources:
1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kelsey.family/1945.htm
3.http://www.151squadron.org.uk
4.ORB 151 Sqdn RAF
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Feb-2012 03:11 | Nepa | Added |
| 27-Feb-2012 03:51 | Nepa | Updated [Date, Registration, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Jul-2014 18:31 | Gloug | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 29-Aug-2014 08:02 | King T. | Updated [Location] |
| 18-Sep-2015 17:51 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Sep-2018 14:10 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 30-Jan-2019 16:45 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Operator] |
| 16-Sep-2021 17:25 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 14-Jun-2022 17:18 | Nepa | Updated [Narrative, Operator] |
| 17-Aug-2022 18:42 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
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