ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 176904
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| Date: | Sunday 4 July 1943 |
| Time: | 01:28 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 158 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | HR734 |
| MSN: | NP-P |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Rue Edouard Colson, Ans, Liège -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Lissett, Yorkshire |
Takeoff at 23:07 hrs for an operation against Köln in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by the crew of Ofw. Kollak & Ofw. Hermann of the 7./NJG 4 (detached to II./NJG 1), who were flying Bf 110 G-4 3C+ER from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield.
The four victims, all sergeants, were recovered by the occupying forces. The pilot was Charles Preston, a 19-year old Canadian. His brother also died during the war. Charles Preston was buried at Brustem, together with Edward McKintosh, Flight Engineer (aged 21); Frederick Walton, mid-upper gunner (aged 25); and David Lock, tail gunner (aged 19).
Two survivors, W/O Cecil Carey, navigator and W/O Victor Moss, radio operator were captured.
Finally, the bomb aimer, John Redman, landed near Herstal. Local resisters put him in a barn for a few days. In Brussels, he was taken in by The Captain, a man who eventually turned out to be the aforementioned collaborator Prosper De Zitter. In Paris, Redman was imprisoned. After stays in the prisons of Fresnes, Oberursel and Magdeburg, he managed to escape shortly before the liberation of the camps and to join the American troops.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/halifax-hr734-te-loncin
http://translate.google.nl/translate?hl=nl&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hangarflying.eu%2Ffr%2Fnode%2F122
http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/tributes-to-raf-veteran-who-escaped-horror-plane-crash-during-world-war-two-1-4109881
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=HR734&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 1 September 1943 | HR937 | 158 Sqn RAF | 2 | Görzke, Brandenburg |  |
w/o |
| 9 October 1943 | LW317 | 158 Sqn RAF | 0 | Schwaförden, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 20 December 1943 | LW245 | 158 Sqn RAF | 0 | Altheim, Münster, Hessen | |
w/o |
| 20 February 1944 | LV786 | 158 Sqn RAF | 1 | near Listrup, Emsbüren, Ems, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 12-Jun-2015 11:12 | gerard57 | Added |
| 08-Jan-2016 15:06 | JIXN | Updated [Operator, Departure airport] |
| 22-Jun-2021 17:05 | TigerTimon | Updated [Date, Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Jun-2022 03:09 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 30-Sep-2022 19:24 | AirlineRoyal | Updated [Category] |
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