ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50559
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Date: | Sunday 23 April 1944 |
Time: | 01:40 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 578 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | MZ563 |
MSN: | LK-Y |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | SE corner of Dennendijkse Bossen woods, Asten, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Burn |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Burn at 22:56 hrs for an operation to Düsseldorf in Germany.
The aircraft was hit by Flak which set fire to the port outer engine. Abandoned and left to crash in the general vicinity of Asten (Noord-Brabant), 12 km SSE of Helmond.
Pilot F/Sgt. S. Sparks RAF / evader
Flight Engineer Sgt. F.E. Woods RAF / evader, prisoner of war: arrested 1st January 1945
Navigator F/Sgt. L.C. Kelly 1339986 RAF / prisoner of war
Bomb Aimer F/O. L.G. Matthews 129611 RAF / evader, prisoner of war: arrested 7th June
Wireless Operator F/Sgt. L. Haley 1270497 RAF / prisoner of war
Air Gunner Sgt. J.W. Firth RAF Survived / evader
Air Gunner Sgt. M.F. Williams RAF Survived / evader
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3615&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 183.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj8vbjspJ3NAhUSahoKHWZ-D3sQFgg3MAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigginhill- history.co.uk%2Fstanleysstory.htm&usg=AFQjCNE2904KIDA6wpCVfcYumvCZvD0oyg&sig2=fDOZv1yltSqIUO3EzWkk1g
http://www.backtonormandy.org/maps/maps-1944/april-44/214-overview-day-by-day-1944-04/3036-23-04-44.html Media:
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
10-Jun-2016 10:59 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
07-Nov-2018 19:06 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
01-Apr-2020 11:44 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
01-Apr-2020 11:44 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
01-Apr-2020 12:10 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Embed code] |
22-Jun-2022 16:43 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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