ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 19890
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| Date: | Saturday 18 March 1944 |
| Time: | 22:30 |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | DZ647 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Ulfa, Nidda, Hessen. -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Graveley, Cambridgeshire |
Mosquito DZ647: Took off at 20:02hrs for a Bombing operation to Frankfurt-am-Main. 18/03/1944
Reportedly to have been shot down by a night fighter. Crashed Ulfa NNE of Frankfurt at 22:30hrs.
I was informed that two unknown airmen were buried in Ulfa so I went there and interviewed the present Burgermeister and his clerk. The clerk has been in office throughout the war and gave the following
information. A two motor bomber approached the village from the East on fire and with pieces falling away from it. It crashed and distributed itself over a wide area. Only two bodies found, one a hundred yards and one fifty yards from the main wreckage. They were identified as Canadian by their shoulder badges, but had no papers or discs giving their names. I visited the cemetery where the grave has a marble surround and is very well kept. The scene of the crash revealed very little, but what had been left by the clearance squads was almost certainly parts of the main spar of a mosquito aircraft, and its duck egg blue paint revealed it to be daylight camouflage.
(Extract from report by Sqn Ldr J H Sanderson Section 14 No3 MREU dated 16 January 1947)
Fg Off Leithead & WO Burke had only arrived at the Squadron on the morning of 18 March 1944.
Crew:
F/O (J/27829) John Chalmers LEITHEAD (pilot) RCAF - killed
W/O (1281933) Joseph Y. BURKE (nav.) RAFVR - killed
Sources:
1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
2.ORB 692 Sqdn RAF
3.CWGC
4.Global Losses Database (Henk Welting) Database
5.Google Maps
Images:
Mosquito Production list showing DZ647 was a B Mk IV, note Source #1 URL to confirm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-May-2008 09:55 | Nepa | Added |
| 20-Jan-2010 22:24 | NePa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Narrative] |
| 09-Feb-2012 14:07 | Nepa | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Jun-2013 20:58 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Narrative] |
| 09-Jul-2014 14:17 | Paix | Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 08-Aug-2015 18:48 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 04-Feb-2019 20:23 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 25-Feb-2020 17:33 | Anon. | Updated [Time, Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 31-Oct-2020 10:36 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator] |
| 31-Aug-2021 19:21 | TigerTimon | Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Source] |
| 05-Sep-2021 22:25 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 10-Oct-2021 08:57 | Nepa | Updated [Narrative, Operator] |
| 18-Feb-2022 20:44 | grapeshot418 | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Photo] |
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