ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50144
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Date: | Tuesday 12 September 1944 |
Time: | 13:45 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk VII |
Owner/operator: | 426 (Thunderbird) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | NP741 |
MSN: | OW-K |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Weedeweg, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 11:31 for an operation to Wanne-Eickel, Herne (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany).
Hit by Flak. Fg Off Buck RCAF was critically injured and though he war taken immediately to a military Lazarett at Dordrecht, he died that same day. His grave is now in the Canadian section of Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery.
Crew
Fg Off P L Buck AFC RCAF (Inj/Later died of wounds)
Sgt H P Rose (PoW)
Fg Off R W Walter RCAF (PoW)
Fg Off W Sloan RCAF (PoW)
Flt Sgt P S Twynam (PoW)
Flt Sgt K J Dugdale RCAF (PoW)
Flt Sgt J M De Luca RCAF (PoW)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4015&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 418.
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
10-Jul-2016 12:16 |
Anon. |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
13-Jul-2016 05:46 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |
13-Jul-2016 05:46 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |
12-Oct-2018 12:22 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
03-Sep-2019 18:43 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
18-Jun-2022 01:25 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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