Date:	Monday 1 January 1945
Time:	09:20
Type:	Hawker Typhoon Mk IB
Owner/operator:	438 (Wild Cat) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	PD556
MSN:	F3-Q
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	B.78 Eindhoven Airfield, Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	B.78 Eindhoven
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Damaged during "Unternehmen Bodenplatte"
The aircraft was strafed during the takeoff roll by fighter pilot Major Heinz Bär of the Stab/JG 3, who was flying a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D-9 from Lippspringe airfield in Germany.
The pilot throttled back, pulled to the side of the runway where he climbed out of the aircraft. He had suffered a wound in the lower stomach and died a few minutes after admittance to Sick Quarters. He had taken command of 438 Sqn that very morning and was leading his very first mission as CO.

F/Lt (J/9876) Peter WILSON / RCAF / succumbed to his injuries and was laid to rest at Woensel (Eindhoven) cemetery; now buried at Groesbeek RCAF cemetery in Gelderland; grave 15 D 1.

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4942&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://aircrewremembered.com/wilson-peter.html
438 Sqn records from DND Canada Archives microfilms
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
CWGC
book 'Bodenplatte, the Luftwaffe's Last Hope'

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
05-Nov-2009 23:26	NePa	Updated
14-Apr-2013 10:43	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative, ]
08-May-2013 16:33	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ]
01-Jun-2013 08:38	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Phase, Narrative, ]
30-Aug-2013 11:53	JINX	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
31-Mar-2015 11:18	JEPA	Updated [Operator, Narrative, ]
25-May-2015 19:20	Gloug	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Source, ]
13-Nov-2019 09:37	TigerTimon	Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
13-Nov-2019 09:38	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative, ]
03-Jan-2020 18:40	TigerTimon	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
21-Mar-2020 16:54	Anon.	Updated [Source, ]
21-Mar-2021 18:00	tachel	Updated [Photo, ]
25-Mar-2021 18:58	tachel	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
25-Mar-2021 18:59	tachel	Updated [Narrative, ]
16-Jun-2022 04:45	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
16-Jun-2022 04:56	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]