ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51233
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Date: | Friday 19 November 1943 |
Time: | 20:24 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 428 (Ghost) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | LK956 |
MSN: | NA-S |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | hamlet Olen, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St George, Durham |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Severely damaged by Flak near Bonn and hit by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Paul Förster of the 2./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Venlo airfield. The crew eventually abandoned the aircraft.
Target: Leverkusen, Germany
Takeoff time: 16:06
Crew:
Pilot F/Sgt. H.C. Shepherd R/149169 RCAF Survived evader, POW (Brussel 26 Jan 44)
Flight engineer Sgt. J.M.C. Walker 1800506 RAF Survived POW
Navigator F/O. D.R. Knight J/20399 RCAF Survived POW
Bomb aimer F/Sgt. D.K. MacGillivray RCAF Survived evader
Wireless op Sgt. S.J. Stevens 1315830 RAF Survived POW
Air gunner Sgt. S. Munns RAF Survived evader
Air gunner Sgt. N.H. Michie RCAF Survived evader
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=&date=&location=&pn=LK956&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
17-Nov-2018 09:19 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
19-Nov-2018 08:10 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
19-Nov-2018 08:11 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
19-Nov-2018 11:50 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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