ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50684
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| Date: | Saturday 28 October 1944 |
| Time: | 16:50 |
| Type: |  North American Mustang Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 430 (City of Sudbury) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | AM153 |
| MSN: | T |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near B.78 Eindhoven Airfield, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | B.78 Eindhoven (NL) |
Take off at 16:20. 2 x Mustangs, F/L Prendergast in AM191 (R) as the photo aircraft and F/L McMahon in AM153 (T) as his top cover escort. They were jumped and accidently shot at by 2 x Spitfires, both aircraft taking hits. AM191 managed to return to base but AM153 burst into flames with the pilot bailing out safely.
Pilot was J/20007 F/L John Louis Martin McMahon RCAF. He got back to base uninjured.
Ironically, within two weeks, the squadron had re-equipped...with Spitfires!
Sources:
http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1944%20sec_tcm5-7285.pdf
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=2670&page=10
430 Sqdn RCAF war time diary/records from RCAF historical microfilms
DND Archives Canada
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=430+sqd&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=20007&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 10-Oct-2011 13:06 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Jan-2012 09:51 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 22-Apr-2015 22:31 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative] |
| 25-May-2015 19:00 | DB | Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport] |
| 17-Jan-2018 10:16 | TB | Updated [Operator, Location, Source] |
| 12-Oct-2019 08:57 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location] |
| 24-Feb-2020 18:16 | Xindel XL | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 24-Feb-2020 18:17 | Iwosh | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 03-Oct-2021 15:00 | tachel | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 02-Nov-2021 08:36 | tachel | Updated [Cn, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 03-Nov-2021 07:08 | tachel | Updated [Narrative] |
| 16-Jun-2022 01:04 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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