ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 190660
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Date: | Friday 28 April 1944 |
Time: | 03:10 claim |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JN948 |
MSN: | DY-N |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 800 metres south of Dourlers, Nord département -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Pocklington, Yorkshire, UK |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 01:28 hrs for an operation to railway yards at Aulnoye-Aymeries.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Konrad Beyer of the 1./NJG 4, who had taken off from Florennes airfield in Belgium.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Alexis Louis Silverman RAFVR 128929 (NCO:1271201 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 10 November, 1942) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Ronald Frank Collier RAFVR 1384914 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Robert Johnstone Blake RAFVR 151084 (NCO:1565227 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 27 April, 1943) [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer James Ronald McClelland RCAF J/88610 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Leonard Francis Webb RAFVR 1601171 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Robert Baillie Russell RAFVR 1822851 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant David Band Robertson RAFVR 1567775 [Killed]
All are buried at the cemetery of Maubeuge, France.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/59224/article/2016-10-14/un-bombardier-halifax-s-ecrase-en-avril-1944-un-citoyen-gallois-mene-l-enquete http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=1230 Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
3 June 1942 |
R9491 |
102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
7 |
North Sea off Harwich, Essex, England |
|
w/o |
26 February 1943 |
W7919 |
102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
7 |
Heppendorf, Elsdorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
15-Oct-2016 07:32 |
gerard57 |
Added |
14-Oct-2018 17:00 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
06-Apr-2020 19:00 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
27-Apr-2024 06:54 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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