ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50121
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| Date: | Sunday 17 September 1944 |
| Time: | 17:00 LT |
| Type: |  North American P-51 Mustang III |
| Owner/operator: | 19 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | SR437 |
| MSN: | 42-106431 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | behind Koppelstraat 1, Braamt, Gelderland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Grimbergen (B.60) Belgium |
During a dogfight with Focke-Wulf Fw 190A fighter aircraft of the II./JG 6 on 17 September 1944, this aircraft came down just east of Braamt . The serial number was SR437 and had belonged to 19 Squadron RAF.
The pilot, 24 year old flying officer Richard A.B. Slee from Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, was killed. Slee had taken off from Grimbergen near Brussels at 15:32 hrs for an offensive patrol near Arnhem-Nijmegen, in support of the Market Garden operation. 19 Squadron was attacked by a large number of German fighters from Jagdgeschwader 6. In this dogfight Slee was shot down. Parts of the wings of the aircraft came down on the mill at Braamt. The engine, and cockpit came down behind the farm on the Link Road to Braamt. Slee was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Zeddam in April 1945. His name is on the plaque at the Canadian cannon in Heerenberg
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4044&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
www.berghapedia.nl/index.../Mustang_III_SR437
http://www.marketgarden.com/database/roll1/view.php?id=1594
http://www.europeanaf.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1926
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 09-Oct-2011 16:35 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 13-Nov-2011 00:05 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 05-Sep-2019 19:44 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Sep-2019 04:19 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
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