ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50416
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| Date: | Tuesday 6 June 1944 |
| Time: | 02:32 |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI |
| Owner/operator: | 515 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | NS950 |
| MSN: | 3P-? |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Bergse Maas near Dussen and Hank; Noord-Brabant. -
 Netherlands
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| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Little Snoring, Norfolk |
Mosquito NS950: Took off at 00:05 hrs for a support bomber mission to operation Overlord (patrol to Gilze-Rijen airfield). 06/06/1944
Mosquito NS950 fell victim to the night fighter crew of Hptm Heinz Strüning & Oberleutnant Fritz-Konrad Apel, who had been scrambled from Venlo in Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+CL at 02:32 hrs.
Crew:
S/Ldr (41479) John Leslie SHAW (pilot) RAF - killed
Sgt (1623168) Philip STANDLEY-SMITH (nav.) RAFVR - killed
Sources:
1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.ORB 515 Sqdn RAF
3.Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 27 April 1944 | NS895 | 515 Sqn RAF | 2 | near Deelen airfield, Gelderland | |
w/o |
| 1 May 1944 | NS847 | 515 Sqn RAF | 2 | 2 km northeast of Bazel, Kruibeke, East Flanders. |  |
w/o |
| 11 May 1944 | NS932 | 515 Sqn RAF | 2 | Westelijke Kanaaldijk near Wemeldinge, Zeeland. | |
w/o |
| 11 May 1944 | NS929 | 515 Sqn RAF | 2 | Oosterschelde estuary off Kats, Zeeland | |
w/o |
| 13 May 1944 | DZ638 | 692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF | 2 | sea am Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog |  |
w/o |
| 28 August 1944 | PZ161 | 515 Sqn RAF | 2 | between the Dalweg and Talmalaan roads at Soest, prov. of Utrecht. | |
w/o |
| 4 September 1944 | PZ163 | 515 Sqn RAF | 0 | Dutch part of the Dollard Bay, Groningen prv. | |
w/o |
| 16 September 1944 | PZ184 | 515 Sqn RAF | 2 | 5 km north of Achmer airfield, Bramsche, Niedersachsen. | |
w/o |
| 18 September 1944 | NS962 | 515 Sqn RAF | 2 | Plantlünne airfield, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 21 November 1944 | PZ344 | 515 Sqn RAF | 2 | Walbeck, Geldern, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 19 March 1945 | NS957 | 515 Sqn RAF | 2 | near Ciney, 14 km east-north-east of Dinant, Namur. | |
w/o |
| Mid-air collision | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 13-Nov-2009 10:32 | NePa | Updated |
| 27-Feb-2012 13:56 | Nepa | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Apr-2014 12:16 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 29-Jun-2014 19:22 | MiG21 | Updated [Narrative] |
| 14-Aug-2015 08:16 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Narrative] |
| 09-May-2019 13:18 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 03-Oct-2020 19:41 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Oct-2020 21:54 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Narrative, Operator] |
| 01-Sep-2021 21:43 | TB | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 06-Jan-2022 19:09 | Nepa | Updated [Narrative, Operator] |
| 28-Jun-2022 17:07 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Operator] |
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