ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 203363
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Date: | Saturday 9 May 1942 |
Time: | 01:21 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 10 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W7674 |
MSN: | ZA-U |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Rostock firing range, Mecklenburg -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Leeming |
Destination airport: | operation - Warnemünde, Rostock |
Narrative:Coned by 11./Flak-Regiment 29, hit by 4./Reserve-Flak-Abteilung 525; crashed.
Pilot:37399 Sqn Ldr Neil Drummond Guthrie - Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Coll. grave 8. A. 16-32.
Flight Engineer:570416 Sgt Alec Ernest Towler - Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery 8. A. 8.
Observer:963007 Sgt Frank Harry Le Vack - Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Coll. grave 8. A. 16-32.
Wireless Operator:919564 Sgt Donald Alexander Clephane - Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Coll. grave 8. A. 16-32.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:117002 Plt Off Douglas Walter Hales - Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Coll. grave 8. A. 16-32.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:81395 Fg Off Francis Montague Davis - Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery 8. B. 19.
Air Gunner:1378401 Sgt Matthew George Killingbeck - Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Coll. grave 8. A. 16-32.
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses 1942
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
CWGC
Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Dec-2017 17:08 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
02-Nov-2018 19:12 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator] |
06-May-2022 09:38 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
04-Jul-2022 05:23 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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