Accident Hawker Typhoon Mk IB RB201, Friday 29 December 1944
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Date:Friday 29 December 1944
Time:13:30
Type:Silhouette image of generic typh model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Hawker Typhoon Mk IB
Owner/operator:440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF
Registration: RB201
MSN: I8-L
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:near Gronau, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:B.78 Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Destination airport:
Narrative:
While engaged in an armed recce operation, hit by Flak.

The pilot, RCAF F/Lt. Donald Edward Jenvey (DFC, MID), belly-landed the aircraft safely behind enemy lines in Germany. he made his way into the Netherlands and was hidden by locals but was later betrayed and shot while escaping on the 25th of March 1945. His body rests at Enschede cemetery in the Netherlands; grave 191.

Sources:

- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft PA100 - RZ999, published 1992
440 SQN archives
Veterans Affairs Canada
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2820321
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4872A&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps

Media:

http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=11309 https://www.thetyphoonproject.org/440/Donald%20Edward-Jenvey.html http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=440+sqd+rcaf

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
14-Apr-2013 11:11 Uli Elch Added
14-Apr-2013 11:24 Uli Elch Updated [Date, Registration, Operator, Location, ]
10-May-2013 16:51 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ]
01-Jun-2013 08:55 Nepa Updated [Operator, ]
31-Dec-2017 16:05 tachel Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, ]
30-Oct-2019 17:44 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ]
17-Jan-2021 22:16 tachel Updated [Time, Embed code, Narrative, ]

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