ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50423
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Date: | Saturday 3 June 1944 |
Time: | 00:05 LT |
Type: | Consolidated B-24D-70-CO Liberator |
Owner/operator: | 489th BGp /847th BSqn USAAF |
Registration: | 42-94793 |
MSN: | 1558 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 11 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Buchten, Limburg -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Halesworth, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - Creil airfield, France.
With battle damage the aircraft managed to struggle back to the UK, where the whole crew baled out safely over Chipping Ongar, Essex. Before the pilot got out, he steered the aircraft in an easterly direction and engaged the autopilot, expecting the Liberator to go down into the sea. Instead, the crewless plane re-crossed the North Sea, and penetrated into Dutch airspace. It was finally intercepted and shot down on the Dutch-German border by Lt. Hittler and his BF Uffz. Wildschütze (who were flying a Heinkel He 219 A-0 from Venlo airfield), and crashed at Buchten.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3755&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
- JF Baugher
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
21-Apr-2013 18:09 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
03-Oct-2020 18:32 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
03-Oct-2020 18:36 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
27-Jan-2021 11:46 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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