ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52722
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| Date: | Friday 3 July 1942 |
| Time: | 00:30 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 10 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | W1056 |
| MSN: | ZA-N |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea off Bergen, Noord-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Leeming |
Takeoff at 23:05 hrs for an operation to Bremen in Germany.
The aircraft was hit by the 3./Marine Flak-Abteilung 246 battery Vlieland-West at a height of 3200 metres and burned.
Six of the crew are missing in action:
Pilot: Aus/404344 Sgt Ernest Joseph Lawer RAAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 112
Flight Engineer:549292 Sgt David Morris Jones - Runnymede Memorial Panel 87
Navigator:1381993 Sgt Robert Tom Charles Martin - Runnymede Memorial Panel 89
Bomb Aimer:652637 Sgt Harold John Gill - Runnymede Memorial Panel 83
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:751921 Flt Sgt John Joseph Francis Martin - Jonkerbos War Cemetery 7. J. 7.
Air Gunner:1317130 Sgt Henry Arthur George - Runnymede Memorial Panel 83
Air Gunner:1379186 Sgt Owen Llewellyn Williams - Runnymede Memorial Panel 96
Sources:
http://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/item2.php?SGLO=T1667
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
CWGC
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 September 1943 | HR924 | 10 Sqn RAF | 0 | abandoned near Patrington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England |  |
w/o |
| 27 April 1944 | HX326 | 10 Sqn RAF | 5 | Limburg |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 03-Jul-2017 15:18 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Feb-2018 14:30 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Nov-2018 19:15 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator] |
| 05-May-2020 13:36 | TigerTimon | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
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