Date:	Monday 9 March 1942
Time:	03:49
Type:	Avro Manchester Mk I
Owner/operator:	83 Sqn RAF
Registration:	R5779
MSN:	OL-G
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Oranjekanaal canal at Oranje, Drenthe -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 01:50 LT for an operation to Essen, Germany.
The aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Paul Gildner of the 5./NJG 2, who was flying from Leeuwarden airfield.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Robert Ward Cooper RAFVR 60121 (NCO:988241 : Commission Gazetted Friday 14 February, 1941) [Killed]
2nd Pilot : Sergeant James Thomson Heggie Mowat RAFVR 1057893 [Killed]
Observer : Sergeant Michael John Carlton Cross RAFVR 913609 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant George William Dalby RAFVR 1310838 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Charles Broad RAFVR 749326 [Killed]
Sergeant Alfred Frederick Key RAF 628343 [PoW]
Sergeant George William Rex RAF 1252286 [PoW]

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1431&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft P1000 - R9999, published 1996
https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Bf-110/NJG1.html
https://www.asisbiz.com/Luftwaffe/njg2.html
http://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/item2.php?SGLO=T1431
CWGC
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
08-Jan-2012 04:20	Uli Elch	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
08-Jan-2012 04:36	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, ]
21-Jan-2016 18:42	Chris	Updated [Time, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
08-Mar-2017 10:25	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
24-Mar-2017 14:33	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative, ]
13-Nov-2017 14:47	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, ]
11-Nov-2018 12:16	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator, ]
07-Nov-2019 18:59	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative, ]
07-Nov-2019 19:03	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
07-Nov-2019 19:04	TigerTimon	Updated [Embed code, ]
18-Aug-2022 21:28	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator, ]
08-Mar-2024 07:57	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]