Date:	Wednesday 28 July 1943
Time:	01:20
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV
Owner/operator:	139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF
Registration:	DZ458
MSN:	XD-J
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Gasthuisstraat, Veghel, Noord-Brabant. -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Wyton, Huntingdonshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mosquito DZ458/J: Takeoff at 23:05 hrs for Night Bombing Mission to Duisburg. 27/07/1943
On his way to Duisburg, with S/Ldr Price along to test current night radar capabilities; ten minutes from the target, the port engine started to fail. When he tried to feather the propeller, it just windmilled. They carried on to finish the mission anyway, but soon after, the vibration started a fire. Extinguisher put it out, but a few minutes later it restarted. Price bailed out at aprox 10,000', and shortly after (having struggled very hard because of his parachute in the close confines,) Sniders followed [their mosquito was already in a dive].
Crashed at 01:20 hrs. 28.7.1943
The aircraft was claimed shot down by night fighter pilot Haupt. Manfred Meurer of the 3./NJG 1, flying a Ju 88R from Venlo airfield.
Crew:
F/O (106028) Edward Solomon Adolph SNIDERS (pilot) RAFVR - Ok /POW (NCO:1185104 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 21 October, 1941)
S/Ldr (112227) Kenneth George PRICE (nav.) RAFVR - Ok /POW (NCO:751704 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 23 December, 1941)

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
2.ORB 139 Sqdn RAF
3.POW list
4.VBS Database
5.Global Losses Database (Henk Welting) Database
6.Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

10 March 1943	DZ469	139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF	2	45 km north of Bayeux, Calvados, Lower Normandy.		w/o
28 March 1945	MM131	139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF	1	north of Brandenburg		w/o

Mosquito Production list showing DZ458 was a B Mk IV, note Source #1 URL to confirm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
21-Nov-2009 10:56	NePa	Updated
16-Dec-2009 22:46	NePa	Updated
06-Mar-2012 10:18	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative]
12-Apr-2014 14:43	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Narrative]
18-Jul-2014 13:50	R.Giggs	Updated [Narrative]
28-Jul-2015 18:52	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative]
13-Oct-2018 05:43	Nepa	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Operator]
07-Nov-2018 14:56	TigerTimon	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
31-Aug-2021 20:03	TB	Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, Operator]
22-Oct-2021 22:36	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
29-Jan-2022 11:31	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]
17-Feb-2022 17:06	grapeshot418	Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Photo]
07-Jun-2022 16:50	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]
28-Jun-2022 16:51	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator]
29-Jul-2022 06:03	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]
30-Jul-2022 11:43	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator]
05-Aug-2022 13:20	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]