Date:	Wednesday 21 March 1945
Time:
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI
Owner/operator:	464 Sqn RAAF
Registration:	RS609
MSN:	SB-V
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Sea near Samsoe Island, Kattegat. -   Denmark
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Fersfield, Norfolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mosquito RS609: Engine damaged by flak of island Sjalland. Crashed into sea nr of island Samso. 21/03/1945
Took off from Rosiere en Santerre, France, at 08:40 hrs on the 21 March 1945, as part of a force of 7 aircraft (including one reserve) from the Squadron detailed to attack the Gestapo headquarters , Copenhagen, Denmark. RS609 failed to return from the mission.464 Sqn ORB reports as follows : “Aircraft left Fersfield at 08:40 and reached target ... at 11:00 hrs. 464 Sqn were in the second box and flying conditions were not good. Considerable heavy and light flak was encountered in the harbour area and the target was attacked at max. 100 feet. Unfortunately the CO of 21 Sqn RAF (W/Cdr Kleboe) who just left 464 Sqn to command 21 Sqn, flew into a building about 1.5 miles from the target and smoke caused difficulty for the following aircraft. Howeve, the buildings were well and truly pranged. The whole operation was a classic example of precision bombing and was up to previous standards. Two 464 Sqn crews were missing.”
Crew:
F/O (Aus.401850) John Herbert PALMER (pilot) RAAF - killed
S/Lt. (N.5247) Fenrik Hermann Hirsch BECKER (nav.) RNoAF - killed

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.http://www.raafdb.com/view_aircraft.asp?id=1046
3.ORB 464 Sqdn RAAF
4.https://www.awm.gov.au//catalogue/research_centre/pdf/rc09125z014_1.pdf

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-Apr-2008 00:12	Nepa	Added
18-Feb-2010 20:59	NePa	Updated [Operator, Narrative]
29-Sep-2011 10:46	Nepa	Updated [Phase, Source, Narrative]
05-May-2014 06:37	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
11-Jun-2014 14:41	Nepa	Updated [Narrative]
16-Sep-2015 19:43	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Narrative]
16-Feb-2016 15:28	Jimi	Updated [Cn, Location, Source, Narrative]
16-Feb-2016 15:28	Jimi	Updated [Narrative]
23-Feb-2016 08:48	Next	Updated [Narrative]
12-Feb-2019 18:54	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]
20-Mar-2021 11:14	Anon.	Updated [Narrative]
16-Sep-2021 10:16	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator]
11-Mar-2022 11:02	Nepa	Updated [Departure airport, Operator]