Date:	Tuesday 2 June 1942
Time:	02:41
Type:	Handley Page Halifax Mk II
Owner/operator:	1652 HCU RAF
Registration:	R9372
MSN:	GV-K
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	dunes 1 km SW of IJmuiden, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Marston Moor, UK
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 00:08 hrs for participation in the second 1000 bomber raid; this time the target being Essen, Germany.
Whilst over Essen the aircraft lost power from one engine. After this happened the aircraft was unable to maintain height. Unfortunately due to this factor it was caught by searchlights and shot down over the Dutch coast. Light (leichte) Flak from the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine was its demise. It crashed into dunes near IJmuiden. The crew were all taken prisoner of war:

Pilot:116901 Plt Off H A Williams PoW Stalag Luft 3 Zagan & Belaria. PoW Number 386 (NCO:948593 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 03 February, 1942)
Flight Engineer:966224 Sgt H Jackson(158 Squadron) PoW Stalag Luft 7 Bankan, near Kreulberg, Upper Silesia. PoW Number 424.
Navigator:1385898 Sgt F E Gostling PoW Stalag 357 Kopernikus. PoW Number 568.
Bomb Aimer:994359 Sgt C R Read (158 Squadron) PoW Stalag 357 Kopernikus. PoW Number 439.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1054950 Sgt J Williams (158 Squadron) PoW Stalag 357 Kopernikus. PoW Number 457.
Air Gunner: Sgt H J W Daly (158 Squadron) RCAF PoW Stalag 357 Kopernikus. PoW Number 457.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft R1000-R9999 (James J. Haley, Air Britain, 1980, page 57)
2. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
3. http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showpost.php?p=128254&postcount=149
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5. https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1554&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
5. http://www.aircrewremembered.com/wright-sg.html
6. The Handley Page Halifax Mk. I By Phil H. Listemann
7. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses: Heavy Conversion Units and miscellaneous units, 1939 to 1947
Volume 8 of Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses, W. R. Chorley
8. RAF Prisoners of War.
9. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
03-Mar-2017 22:31	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
01-Jun-2017 07:39	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
23-Dec-2017 18:59	Nepa	Updated [Cn, Operator, Destination airport, Narrative]
06-Jan-2018 14:31	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
19-Nov-2018 21:23	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]
23-Apr-2020 17:59	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
23-Jun-2022 03:43	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]