Date:	Saturday 18 November 1944
Time:	16:10
Type:	Hawker Typhoon Mk IB
Owner/operator:	440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	MN475
MSN:	I8-A
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Heistraat, Maria-Hoop -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	B.78 Eindhoven airfield (NL)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
On return from a mission to bomb a bridge at Hilfarth, Germany, aircraft was hit by Flak and seen to crash in Diergaarde NL on the German/Dutch border. The pilot, J38349 Flg Off Robert John Reilly (RCAF), from Toronto, had radioed he was in trouble and needed directions towards allied lines. He perished in the crash.

There is a memorial at the crash site, on Heistraat of the village of Maria-Hoop (named Diergaarde before 1953).

"2nd Tactical Air Force. Volume Two : Breakout to Bodenplatte. July 1944 to January 1945", by Christopher Shores and Chris Thomas. ISBN 1-903223-41-5
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4679&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2619343
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/35378693
http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/70539/Memorial-Typhoon-MN-475.htm
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=6063
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echt-Susteren
http://en.tracesofwar.com/map/70539/
Google Maps
440 Sqn RCAF records from DND Canada microfiche including mission report
Personnel records from Ancestry,ca including crash report
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=38349&qand=&exc1=&exc2=
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=440+sqd+rcaf&qand=&exc1=&exc2=
https://www.thetyphoonproject.org/440/Robert%20John-Reilly.html

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11 November 1944

MP124

440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF

1

Rouveen, Overijssel

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
18-Nov-2015 17:35	Laurent Rizzotti	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative]
19-Oct-2019 11:45	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source]
19-Oct-2019 11:47	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, Embed code]
24-Feb-2020 13:48	Xindel XL	Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Operator]
31-Jan-2021 18:28	tachel	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative]
31-Jan-2021 18:29	tachel	Updated [Narrative]