ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52678
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| Date: | Sunday 26 July 1942 |
| Time: | 01:32 |
| Type: |  Short Stirling Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 15 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | W7576 |
| MSN: | LS-G |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Tienrayseweg road, Horst, Limburg -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire |
Takeoff at 23:40 hrs for a bombing operation to Duisburg in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Reinhold Knacke & Unteroffizier Kurt Bundrock of the 1./NJG 1, who were flying a Lichtenstein-equipped Bf 110 from Venlo airfield - (claim) Eickenbosch 3 km NW Horst (5B): 4,000m at 01:31.
The three crew members who died were initally buried in Venlo:
Pilot:J/7035 Plt Off Wilbert Andrews Shoemaker DFC RCAF - Jonkerbos War Cemetery 8 G 4
Flight Engineer:53432 Sgt Phillip Denis Byrne - Jonkerbos War Cemetery 8 G 5
Navigator:1257538 Sgt H A Robinson PoW Stalag Luft 4 Zagan & Belaria. PoW Number 39735.
Bomb Aimer:R/71637 Sgt D L Evans RCAF PoW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. PoW Number 6455.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:990828 Sgt R J Fletcher PoW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. PoW Number 25034.
Air Gunner:627757 Sgt G D G Muir PoW
Air Gunner:R/88211 Flt Sgt John Chisholm Fitzgerald RCAF - Jonkerbos War Cemetery 16 H 4
Sources:
http://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/item2.php?SGLO=T1716
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
Google Maps
CWGC
RAF Prisoners of War
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 30 June 1941 | N6016 | 15 Sqn RAF | 2 | near Tangstedt, Schleswig-Holstein |  |
w/o |
| 29 January 1942 | N6098 | 15 Sqn RAF | 0 | RAF Lossiemouth |  |
w/o |
| 11 April 1942 | N3703 | 15 Sqn RAF | 2 | Rectory Farm Cow Land Godmanchester | |
unk |
| 9 May 1942 | W7528 | 15 Sqn RAF | 8 | Brodersby, Schleswig-Holstein | |
w/o |
| 30 June 1942 | N3757 | 15 Sqn RAF | 0 | Hartward, Neuharlingersiel, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 1 October 1942 | W7634 | 15 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea west of Sylt island (near List), Schleswig-Holstein | |
w/o |
| 3 October 1943 | BF470 | 15 Sqn RAF | 3 | Haste, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 18 November 1943 | BK707 | 15 Sqn RAF | 7 | near Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus, Marne, Grand Est |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 09-Aug-2017 09:27 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Feb-2018 16:45 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Nov-2018 20:45 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 08-May-2020 15:17 | TigerTimon | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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