ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50779
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| Date: | Saturday 25 March 1944 |
| Time: | 01:30 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 78 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | HX355 |
| MSN: | EY-D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Natersedijk - Hortweg roads at Rockanje, Zuid-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Breighton (takeoff at 18:50 hrs) |
| Berlin |
Returning from an operation against Berlin, the plane was badly damaged by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Leopold Weinberger of the 7./NJG 4 based at Juvincourt airfield in France.
The crew bailed out over Den Haag before the Halifax crashed and was taken prisoner of war:
F/L E. W. Everett (POW)
Sgt K.H.Jones (POW)
Sgt J.R.Stewart (POW)
F/O J. K. M. Green (POW)
Sgt J.E.Johnson (POW)
Sgt J.R.Graham (POW)
P/O A.P. Sinden (POW)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3548&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 130.
https://sites.google.com/site/wo2vpr1/home/1944-03-25-halifax
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/jackson-henry.html
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Nachtjagdgeschwader/NJG4.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 20-Oct-2013 12:30 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Jun-2016 14:59 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Mar-2020 21:52 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Mar-2020 21:53 | TigerTimon | Updated [Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 31-Mar-2020 07:37 | TigerTimon | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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