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Date: | Saturday 20 January 1945 |
Time: | 10:30 |
Type: | Hawker Typhoon Mk IB |
Owner/operator: | 257 (Burma) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PD598 |
MSN: | FM-T |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Dubbeldam, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | B.70 Antwerp/Deurne, Belgium |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 09:50 hrs for an armed recce operation to Leiden.
The aircraft iced up in cloud, the engine quit and caught fire, the pilot performed a successful emergency-landing but was captured. He was interned at Stalag Luft III - Sagan, Germany.
Pilot was J/91029 Pilot Officer William Bert Whitmore (RCAF)
Sources:
257 Burma Squadron war time records from The National Archives UK
Personnel record of P/O Whitmore from RCAF Archives (118/438 Sqn records)
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T5139&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
https://aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=whitmore&qand=257sqn&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=pd598&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
23 August 1944 |
MN492 |
257 (Burma) Sqn RAF |
0 |
Llangennith Beach, Llangennith, Glamorgan, Wales |
|
w/o |
5 January 1945 |
PD454 |
257 (Burma) Sqn RAF |
0 |
near B.78 Eindhoven Airfield, Noord-Brabant |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
30-Aug-2013 12:07 |
JINX |
Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
04-Mar-2015 15:13 |
H.Shaft |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
18-Jan-2020 20:03 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
18-Jan-2020 21:57 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Operator] |
03-Sep-2021 01:08 |
tachel |
Updated [Narrative] |
18-Dec-2023 20:41 |
tachel |
Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
21-Jan-2024 20:14 |
tachel |
Updated [Narrative] |