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Date: | Wednesday 29 July 1942 |
Time: | 01:30 |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W7464 |
MSN: | HA-Z |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea 20 km NW of Terschelling, Friesland -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Marham, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:43 hrs for an operation to Hamburg in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Paul Gildner of the 5./NJG 2, who had taken off from Leeuwarden airfield.
All seven are missing in action and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W7464 Google Maps
https://218squadron.wordpress.com/roll-of-honour/ https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=W7464 https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1799956 218 Sqn war records from The National Archives UK
Personnel file of Sergeant Douglas Bernard Henshaw (RCAF) from Ancestry.ca (Archives Canada)
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
5 May 1943 |
BF505 |
218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
5 |
near Murmerwoude, S of Dokkum, Friesland |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-May-2020 12:40 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
19-Mar-2021 20:54 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
14-Jun-2022 23:52 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
29-Oct-2023 19:39 |
tachel |
Updated [[Location]] |