ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49811
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| Date: | Monday 2 October 1944 |
| Time: | 12:15 claim |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk IX |
| Owner/operator: | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | MJ300 |
| MSN: | YO- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | B.82 Grave Airfield, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | b.68 Le Culot/Beauvechain (B) |
Takeoff at 11:34 hrs for a patrol in the Nijmegen (Gelderland) area.
The aircraft was hit by a Focke-Wulf Fw 190A of the II./JG 26 over Grave.
The person most probably responsible for the demise of this Spitfire is Leutnant Adolf "Addi" Glunz of the 6./JG 26, who was flying an Fw 190 A-9 from Kirchhellen airfield, Germany.
The 28-year-old pilot, J/10254 F/Lt Russell Reginald Bouskill DFC, tried to make an emergency-landing at Keent but crash-landed.
He died in the crash and is buried at the Groesbeek RCAF War Cemetery; grave 15 E 5.
"HIS MEMORY IS AS DEAR TODAY AS IN THE HOUR HE PASSED AWAY"
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4447&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
https://www.bhic.nl/ontdekken/verhalen/crashes-tussen-ravenstein-en-grave
https://books.google.cz/books?id=66V2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=pilot,+F/Lt+Russell+Reginald+Bouskill
Google Maps
http://www.luftwaffe.cz/glunz.html
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Jagdgeschwader/JG26.htm
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Germany%20[1937%20Borders].pdf
2019 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 27 October 1941 | AB983 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | French coast near Dunkirk |  |
w/o |
| 27 October 1941 | W3601 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Martin Hill, near Deal, Kent |  |
w/o |
| 28 April 1942 | AB917 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Whitfield Kent | |
w/o |
| 3 August 1943 | BL339 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Underhill farm, Surrey | |
w/o |
| 20 December 1943 | EN629 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | near Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant | |
w/o |
| 21 June 1944 | NH207 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | 1 mile west of advanced airfield B6, Coulombs, Calvados | |
w/o |
| 28 June 1944 | MJ246 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Near Briouze, Normandy | |
w/o |
| 19 September 1944 | JK795 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Gerwen, Nuenen, Noord-Brabant | |
w/o |
| 20 October 1944 | MK676 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | B.80 Volkel Airfield, Noord-Brabant | |
w/o |
| 20 November 1944 | MJ604 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | B.80 Volkel Airfield, Noord-Brabant | |
w/o |
| 8 December 1944 | MJ245 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | B.88 Heesch Airfield, Noord-Brabant | |
w/o |
| 22 February 1945 | MJ851 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | 7 km N of Hengelo, Overijssel | |
w/o |
| 1 March 1945 | MJ448 | 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | B.80 Volkel Airfield, Noord-Brabant | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 06-Mar-2019 10:49 | gerard57 | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 19-May-2019 07:12 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Sep-2019 12:35 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Sep-2019 12:46 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 05-Oct-2019 07:16 | TigerTimon | Updated [Embed code] |
| 07-Feb-2020 14:05 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
| 17-Jun-2022 02:43 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 17-Jun-2022 03:10 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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