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| Date: | Monday 1 January 1945 |
| Time: | 09:15 |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIV |
| Owner/operator: | 430 (City of Sudbury) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | RM883 |
| MSN: | G9- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | B.78 Eindhoven Airfield, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | B.78 Eindhoven (NL) |
Destroyed during German air raid while parked ("Unternehmen Bodenplatte").
Pilot, J/4900 F/L Robert Frederick Gill (RCAF), suffered a head wound and a broken arm extricating himself from the aircraft while under fire.
Sources:
http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1945%20sec_tcm5-7286.pdf
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft PA100 - RZ999, published 1992
430 Sqn wartime diaries and records from RCAF historical microfilms
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=430+sqd&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=430+sqd&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 06-Nov-2009 11:05 | NePa | Updated |
| 14-Apr-2013 11:01 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 10-May-2013 19:42 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ] |
| 25-May-2015 19:04 | DB | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, ] |
| 13-Nov-2019 19:27 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, ] |
| 21-Nov-2021 17:57 | tachel | Updated [Time, Cn, Total occupants, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 17-Jun-2022 03:13 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, ] |
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