ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50733
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Date: | Saturday 14 October 1944 |
Time: | 10:30 |
Type: | Taylorcraft Auster AOP.IV |
Owner/operator: | 658 (AOP) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | MT142 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Westerbeek, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | grass strip at Escharen, Noord-Brabant |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:While engaged in a recce flight, hit by friendly fire and crashed. The pilot, Lieutenant John Arthur Hill, died in the crash and rests at the Overloon War Cemetery; grave I D 10.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4537&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
https://www.bhic.nl/ontdekken/verhalen/neergestorte-vliegtuigen-in-oploo-en-sint-anthonis-1940-1945 book 'Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd' for airfield
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
31-Oct-2018 14:32 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
08-Oct-2019 05:28 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
09-Oct-2019 15:28 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source] |
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