ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 177994
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| Date: | Friday 30 July 1943 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | 76 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ED244 |
| MSN: | MP-X |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Oberndorf, Niedersachsen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor, Yorkshire |
Takeoff at 22:33 hrs for an operation against Hamburg.
The Halifax plane was shot down by German Luftwaffe.
Two crew members died, pilot Sgt AR Bjercke and F / O C. Daniel.
Sources:
http://www.luftwaffe.no/Table2.htm
http://translate.google.nl/translate?hl=nl&sl=en&u=http://www.rulit.me/books/inferno-the-devastation-of-hamburg-1943-read-311948-90.html&prev=search
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
Google Maps
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ED244&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 30 December 1941 | L9615 | 76 Sqn RAF | 7 | off French Coast |  |
w/o |
| 13 April 1942 | R9487 | 76 Sqn RAF | 6 | Gelsenkirchen-Buer, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 28 September 1943 | LK891 | 76 Sqn RAF | 8 | - missing - |  |
mis |
| 1 March 1944 | LW636 | 76 Sqn RAF | 7 | 1.5 mile north-west of RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, England |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Jul-2015 12:51 | gerard57 | Added |
| 08-Jan-2016 15:07 | JIXN | Updated [Operator, Departure airport] |
| 31-Oct-2018 13:44 | ALAN MACKAY | Updated [Registration] |
| 22-Jun-2021 17:42 | TigerTimon | Updated [Date, Time, Registration, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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