ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 106689
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| Date: | Friday 3 March 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas Havoc I |
| Owner/operator: | 4th GGTF USAAF |
| Registration: | AX924 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Greencastle/Sta 237, 6 miles N, N. Ireland -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Greencastle airfield was built in 1942 south of the fishing village of Kilkeel, Northern Ireland, as an RAF bomber Operational Training Unit but was transferred to USAAF control on 3 August 1943 and was then used as a training base. From 3 December 1943 until September 1944 it was used by the 4th Gunnery and Tow Target Flight with Havocs, Lysanders and Vengeance A-35B’s in the B-24 gunnery school.
On 3 March 1944 the Havoc I AX924 of the 4th GGTF crashed 6 miles north of the airfield on a dry bombing run over auxilliary range. The pilot, 1st Lt George Chesley Woodman, and his passenger, S/Sgt Ovis P Courville, were killed.
Born on 8 February 1917, George Chesley Woodman resided in Rockingham County, New Hampshire prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 5 November 1941, prior to the war, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a mechanic and also as Single, without dependents. He served as a B-17 co-pilot with 359th BS, 303rd BG.
Sources:
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/unit/3099
https://www.findagrave.com/page=gr&GRid=130176760
https://www.fold3.com/image/54835650?ann=e20a8e00-5a33-11e1-5a22-331f6d435c50
http://usaafdata.com/?q=search
http://airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/877/280.xml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Greencastle
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=fr&lat=54.067045&lon=-6.066170&z=12&m=b
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Oct-2012 05:40 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Country, Phase] |
| 08-Mar-2016 11:43 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
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