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| Date: | Sunday 29 October 1944 |
| Time: | 12:25 |
| Type: |  Hawker Typhoon Mk IB |
| Owner/operator: | 440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | MN352 |
| MSN: | I8- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Broekstraat road, Someren, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | B.78 Eindhoven airfield (NL) |
Takeoff at 11h45 hrs to bomb a bridge with 1000lbers at X E710039.
Hit by flak, cooling system damaged. Pilot crash landed aircraft between 2 tree lines and only sustained minor abrasions. He was back at his unit later the same day. Pilot was J/22010 S/L Alonzo Edgar. Monson RCAF. Commanding Officer of 440 Sqn.
From Sqn records and pilot himself: Action report from 440 Sqn records: German light flak caught his Typhoon fighter-bomber in a dive and damaged its engine. From pilot himself: With its coolant and oil drained away, the engine began to overheat and was about to burst into flames. I had to get out in a hurry, but I still had to land. First I thought I’d crash into some trees, then, I was sailing down neatly between them. There was some crackling as the canopy caught in the top branches and I gently slowed up until I stopped – with my toes just touching the ground. That’s the nicest landing I’ve ever done,
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4598&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
RCAF main site.
RCAF archives.
440 Sqn wartime records from DND microfilmed archives.
https://www.thetyphoonproject.org/439/Alonzo%20Edgar-Monson.html
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=22010
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=440+sqd+rcaf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 10-Apr-2018 20:12 | tachel | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 14-Oct-2019 17:36 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 24-Feb-2020 13:41 | Xindel XL | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator, ] |
| 30-Jan-2021 15:53 | tachel | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 30-Jan-2021 16:03 | tachel | Updated [Narrative, ] |
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