ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53110
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| Date: | Sunday 12 October 1941 |
| Time: | 22:20 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 76 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | L9561 |
| MSN: | MP-H |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Wons, Friesland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St. George, County Durham |
Handley Page Halifax Mk I serial number L9561 coded MP-H, of No. 76 Squadron. The plane took off at 19:45 hrs from Middleton St George to bomb Bremen. Shot down by the night fighter (Lt Leopold Fellerer, 4./NJG 1) and crashed 22:20 hrs near Wons (Friesland), 10 km South of Harlingen. One crew member killed, all the other eight crew members survived and were captured. Crew were:
Flight Sergeant E.B. MUTTART RCAF (KIA)
P/O N.F. Trayler
Sgt David Cotsell (captured near Leewarden according to his PoW questionnaire, WO 344 series at Kew)
Sgt L.A. Roberts
Sgt R.W.F. Alexander
Sgt W.H. Hunt
Sgt G.H. Patterson
Sgt J.W. Duffield
Flight Sergeant E.B. MUTTART RCAF, is buried in the General Cemetery at Harlingen. The rest of the crew was able to bail out and survived, but ended up in POW camps.
Sources:
1. http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1941%20sec_tcm5-7282.pdf
2. https://twitter.com/AirWarWW2/status/256694368310788097
3. http://members.ziggo.nl/netuser/1941.htm
4. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?20750-Fgt-Sgt-E-M-Muttart-Service-No-R-64729&p=121469&styleid=3
5. http://collectionscanada.ca/obj/001056/f2/m/sww-28318-muttart-elmer_bagnell-r64729.pdf
6. https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1292&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 4 May 1942 | R9451 | 76 Sqn RAF | 4 | Ottensen, Buxtehude, Niedersachsen |  |
w/o |
| 27 July 1942 | R9485 | 76 Sqn RAF | 4 | near Pippensen at Daensen, Buxtehude, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 18 November 1943 | LK957 | 76 Sqn RAF | 6 | Zotzenbach, Rimbach, Hessen | |
w/o |
Media:
Today, 71 years ago, #Halifax L9561 (76 Sqn); Crashed east of #Wons, Friesland, Holland (1 KIA / 7 POW). http://t.co/886i5skP
— Jan Nieuwenhuis (@AirWarWW2) October 12, 2012
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 31-Aug-2014 11:23 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Mar-2017 23:41 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 05-Mar-2017 23:45 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Embed code] |
| 05-Mar-2017 23:48 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 05-Mar-2017 23:49 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time] |
| 23-Dec-2017 18:51 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 28-Apr-2019 11:04 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator] |
| 07-Apr-2020 15:42 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source] |
| 07-Apr-2020 20:27 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
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