ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49770
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| Date: | Friday 6 October 1944 |
| Time: | 16:30 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 78 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LL588 |
| MSN: | EY-O |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Grote Bloksepolder, Oude-Tonge, Zuid-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Breighton, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Takeoff at 14:30 hrs for a Ramrod operation against the Hibernia AG synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer (Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany).
Over Zuid-Holland, the aircraft collided with Halifax MZ310 of the same squadron.
Crew:
Pilot F/O. R.L. Stanley 176376 RAF Bergen op Zoom; grave 20 B 10
Flight Engineer Sgt. G.E. Kemp 1866112 RAF Bergen op Zoom; grave 20 B 8
Navigator Sgt. G.W. Habgood 1399598 RAF Bergen op Zoom; grave 20 B 4
Bomb Aimer F/Sgt. J.A. McKillop 1361194 RAF Bergen op Zoom; grave 20 B 6
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Sgt. A. Moss 1115114 RAF Bergen op Zoom; grave 20 B 5
Air Gunner Sgt. G.H. Tilburn 1591010 RAF Bergen op Zoom; grave 20 B 2
Air Gunner Sgt. H. Lockett 1593872 RAF Den Bommel; grave 14 - recovered from the wreck on the 8th of September 1945
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4473&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
https://masterbombercraig.wordpress.com/bombing-operations/7th-sqadronpathfinder-operations-october-44/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 September 1943 | LW232 | 78 Sqn RAF | 4 | Langenhagen, Niedersachsen |  |
w/o |
| 26 February 1944 | LV794 | 78 Sqn RAF | 3 | near Fischbach bei Dahn, Rheinland-Pfalz | |
w/o |
| 8 June 1944 | MZ577 | 78 Sqn RAF | 5 | 4 kms S of Lieusaint (Seine-et-Marne) |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 03-Oct-2019 13:32 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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