Accident de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV DZ387,
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Date:Sunday 20 December 1942
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic MOSQ model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV
Owner/operator:139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF
Registration: DZ387
MSN: XD-?
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Between Meppen and Bokeloh, Ems, Niedersachsen. -   Germany
Phase: En route
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Mosquito DZ387: Took off at 08:52 hrs for an operation against Rheine in NRW. 20/12/1942 Missing.
Crew:
S/Ldr (44484) Jack Edward HOULSTON DFC AFC (pilot) RAF - killed (NCO:565989 Commission Gazetted : Friday 27 September, 1940)
P/O (135457) James Lloyd ARMITAGE DFC (obs) RAFVR - killed (NCO:936476 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 12 January, 1943)

Sources:

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
2.ORB 139 Sqdn RAF
3.CWGC
4.Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
12 December 1942 DZ384 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 1 Cubitt's Farm, Norfolk, England w/o
14 December 1942 DK336 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 0 RAF stn Marham, Norfolk, England. min
13 August 1943 DZ607 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 2 North Sea off Norfolk coast, England w/o
18 August 1943 DZ465 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 0 RAF stn Swanton Morley, Norfolk, England w/o
20 August 1943 DZ348 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 2 near Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen. w/o
1 September 1943 DK337 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 2 Missing - Nordrhein-Westfalen. w/o
15 September 1943 DZ598 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 2 North Sea, north-east of Cromer, Norfolk, England w/o
Mid-air collision
17 September 1943 DZ428 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 0 RAF stn Manston, Kent, England w/o
24 November 1943 DZ614 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 1 Borkheide, 8 km north-east of Brück, Brandenburg. w/o
5 May 1944 DZ646 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 2 near RAF stn Bourn, Cambridgeshire, England w/o
12 June 1944 DZ609 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 2 east of Salzwedel, Sachsen-Anhalt. w/o
25 June 1944 KB329 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 2 Flatow, Kremmen, Brandenburg. w/o
6 August 1944 KB118 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 1 Wilhelmstraße street, Hünxe, Nordrhein-Westfalen. w/o
16 August 1944 KB206 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 0 RAF stn Upwood, Huntingdonshire, England. min
11 September 1944 KB227 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 2 Siedlung Schönwalde, Schönwalde-Glien, Brandenburg. w/o

Images:


Mosquito Production list showing DZ387 was a B Mk IV, click on Source #1 to confirm

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
14-Jan-2010 10:05 NePa Added
06-Feb-2012 04:02 Nepa Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Mar-2012 09:55 Nepa Updated [Operator, Departure airport]
16-Jun-2014 09:57 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative]
18-Jul-2014 14:13 R.Giggs Updated [Narrative]
22-Jul-2015 11:14 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type]
05-Oct-2015 08:42 R.Giggs Updated [Location, Narrative]
07-Apr-2016 09:50 Nepa Updated [Source, Narrative]
12-Dec-2018 20:03 Nepa Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator]
30-Dec-2018 09:58 m. fickers Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]
21-Jan-2021 15:38 Anon. Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Operator]
30-Aug-2021 14:27 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative]
30-Aug-2021 16:59 TB Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, Operator]
02-Sep-2021 21:14 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
30-Sep-2021 11:29 Nepa Updated [Narrative, Operator]
19-Jan-2022 23:26 Nepa Updated [Narrative, Operator]
15-Feb-2022 19:40 grapeshot418 Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Photo]
27-Jun-2022 08:59 Ron Averes Updated [Location]
01-Aug-2022 11:05 Nepa Updated [Source, Operator]
05-Aug-2022 13:43 Rob Davis Updated [Source, Narrative]

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