Accident Hawker Tempest Mk V EJ715,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49523
 
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Date:Friday 22 December 1944
Time:15:20
Type:Silhouette image of generic tpst model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Hawker Tempest Mk V
Owner/operator:486 (NZ) Sqn RAF
Registration: EJ715
MSN: SA-B
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:near 'Hazewinkel' farm at Oldenzaal, Overijssel -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:B.80 Volkel
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 14:40 hrs for a Ranger operation to the Münster area, Germany.
Ranger - operation to engage air and ground targets within a wide but specified area.

The aircraft was hit by Flak over Vreden (Germany) and Oldenzaal; crashed.
Pilot: NZ412297 F/Lt Stamford Seaton Williams MiD RNZAF - killed. He rests in Losser cemetery.
R.I.P.

Sources:

http://www.luchtoorlogboventwente.nl/441222RAF.php
CWGC
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4826&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
8 February 1945 EJ750 486 (NZ) Sqn RAF 0 Tweede Valthermond, Drenthe w/o

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Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
01-Jan-2015 15:43 Hinchliffe Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Narrative]
01-Jan-2015 15:45 harro Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source]
27-Apr-2015 18:39 Apen Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative]
29-Jun-2018 07:45 angels one five Updated [Location, Narrative]
26-Oct-2019 11:41 TigerTimon Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
08-Jul-2022 00:06 Ron Averes Updated [Narrative]

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