Date:	Saturday 27 May 1944
Time:	01:21
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV
Owner/operator:	692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF
Registration:	DZ649
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Heinerscheid, Clervaux Canton. -   Luxembourg
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Graveley, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mosquito DZ649: Took off for Night mission over Ludwigshafen. 26/05/1944
It crashed in the early hours of the 27th in the vicinity of Heinerscheid and Hupperdange, two small villages in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, some 35 km NNW of Diekirch. The aircraft was intercepted by the night fighter crew of Fw. Rauer/Fw. Weber of the 3./NJG 1 who had left Venlo airfield (NL) at 23:40 hrs in Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+DL.
Crew:- This was Rauer's 5th victory.
F/O (J/15874) Thomas Campbell McGOWAN (pilot) RCAF - Killed 
F/Lt (49100) Cyril Samuel BRADFORD (nav.) RAF - Killed (NCO:580757 Commission Gazetted : Friday 01 May, 1942)

Cyril Bradford is commemorated on a family grave in Christ Church churchyard, Virginia Water, Surrey. Please see source

1. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
2. ORB 692 Sqdn RAF
3. CWGC
4. http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail.
5. Global Losses Database (Henk Welting) Database
6. Theo Boiten: Nachtjagd 1944 vol 3, p. 026.
7. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
8. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/97512

Mosquito Production list showing DZ649 was a B Mk IV, note Source #1 URL to confirm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
21-Jan-2010 01:01	NePa	Added
05-Jun-2013 06:06	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
09-Jul-2014 14:18	Paix	Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
13-Aug-2015 18:48	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative, ]
22-Sep-2017 14:01	Laurent Rizzotti	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
04-Feb-2019 21:05	Nepa	Updated [Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, Operator, ]
02-Oct-2020 19:23	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
30-Oct-2020 22:19	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Narrative, Operator, ]
31-Aug-2021 19:22	TigerTimon	Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, ]
06-Sep-2021 21:34	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, Operator, ]
20-Feb-2022 09:00	grapeshot418	Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Photo, ]
29-Jul-2022 19:55	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
02-Aug-2022 21:24	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator, ]
05-Aug-2022 07:41	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
21-May-2023 20:36	redsix	Updated
14-Jun-2024 08:53	Richard	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]