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Date: | Friday 25 June 1943 |
Time: | 01:59 |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BF501 |
MSN: | HA-N |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Kaggevinne, Flemish Brabant -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Downham Market |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:43 for an operation to Wuppertal, Germany.
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hans Autenrieth of the 6./NJG 4 (detached to II./NJG 1), flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield.
Crew: http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BF501
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BF501 Personnel file of the pilot Warrant Officer II James William Douglas Hoey from Ancestry.ca
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2896476 218 Sqn war records from The National Archives UK
RCAF historical microfilm (Archives Canada
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=BF501
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
31 May 1942 |
W7502 |
218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
6 |
400 metres southeast of Huppenbroich, Simmerath, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
2 October 1942 |
W7613 |
218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
8 |
North Sea west of Skallingen, Blåvand, Syddanmark |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-Dec-2018 15:46 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
24-Dec-2018 09:03 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
08-Nov-2022 07:03 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
30-Oct-2023 15:48 |
tachel |
Updated [[Location]] |