ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 167847
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| Date: | Sunday 11 June 1944 |
| Time: | 00:55 |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | DZ608 |
| MSN: | P3-? |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Lengerich, Nordrhein-Westfalen. -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Gransden Lodge, Cambridgeshire |
Mosquito DZ608: Takeoff at 22:36 hrs for a bombing operation against Berlin.11/06/1944
Outward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted and shot down by the night fighter crew of ObLt Josef Nabrich & Feldwebel Fritz Habicht of the 3./NJG 1, who were flying a Heinkel He 219 from Venlo airfield (NL).
Crew:
F/O (Aus.402383) Ian Stewart Horatio MacDONALD (pilot) RAAF - POW
F/O (136339) Edward Burt CHATFIELD DFC (nav.) RAFVR - POW (NCO:926473 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 19 January, 1943)
Sources:
1. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
2. ORB 692 Sqdn RAF
3. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 11 July 1944 | PF380 | 692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF | 2 | North Sea north of Terschelling, Friesland. |  |
w/o |
| 17 August 1944 | MM144 | 692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF | 0 | RAF stn Gransden Lodge, Cambridgeshire, England. |  |
min |
| 30 September 1944 | PZ440 | 515 Sqn RAF | 0 | Volketswil, near Dübendorf airfield |  |
w/o |
| 15 October 1944 | MM184 | 692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF | 1 | 10 km north of Groß Reken, Reken, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 31 October 1944 | MM181 | 692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF | 2 | 300 metres E of Mienenbüttel, Neu Wulmstorf, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
Images:
Mosquito Production list showing DZ608 was a B Mk IV, note Source #1 URL to confirm, note error in fate redacted
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Jul-2014 15:15 | Apen | Added |
| 01-Oct-2014 19:07 | Jixon | Updated [Location] |
| 16-Aug-2015 14:29 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 04-Feb-2019 21:22 | Nepa | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 05-Oct-2020 16:21 | TigerTimon | Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Oct-2020 22:07 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Narrative, Operator] |
| 26-Apr-2021 14:07 | TigerTimon | Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities] |
| 10-Oct-2021 09:18 | Nepa | Updated [Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 22-Oct-2021 23:26 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 21-Feb-2022 08:34 | grapeshot418 | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative, Photo] |
| 04-Jun-2022 16:58 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Aug-2022 21:36 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 05-Aug-2022 07:20 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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