ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53844
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| Date: | Friday 9 August 1940 |
| Time: | 03:30 |
| Type: |  Avro Anson Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 500 (County of Kent) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | N5356 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea, off Katwijk, Zuid-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Detling |
09/08/40 No.500 Sqn Anson I N5356 MK-B RAF Detling, Time Up 02:35 hrs. Failed to return from a patrol between Oostende and Hook van Holland. It was subsequently reported by German sources that the aircraft has been captured in searchlights and then brought down by AAA fire ("flak") west of Scheveningen, and that two of the crew were taken as POWs
Crew:
P/O H G R Pirie, KIA
P/O J B S Brockway, PoW
Sgt S R Croft, PoW
Sgt M A Prentice, KIA
After being hit by AAA flak, the Anson crashed into the North Sea off Katwijk. P/O Pirie rests in Noordwijk General Cemetery, Holland, and Sgt Prentice is buried in Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery, Holland.
Sources:
http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1940%20sec_tcm5-7281.pdf
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=1614
http://www.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/SGLO-Verlieslijst-T-1940-versie-03-19-10-2011.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 19-Mar-2012 08:01 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 13-Aug-2012 14:19 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 14-Jun-2013 18:19 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
| 24-Aug-2013 18:09 | JINX | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location] |
| 03-Jun-2015 16:13 | Z. Zeeland | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative] |
| 29-Sep-2015 07:58 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 18-Jun-2022 04:05 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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