ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 202569
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Date: | Wednesday 15 April 1942 |
Time: | 02:35 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | AT141 |
MSN: | EQ- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Eichlinghofen, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Balderton |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:03 hrs for an operation to Dortmund in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and hit by heavy (schwere) Flak.
The crew all rest at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery:
Pilot: R/80175 Sgt Archibald McClintock RCAF Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 3. B. 6.
Observer: R/71111 Sgt Francis Eldon Hagel RCAF Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Joint grave 3. B. 7-8.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: R/69737 Flt Sgt Joseph Boisvert RCAF Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 3. B. 5.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 998695 Sgt John Johnstone Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Joint grave 3. B. 7-8.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=AT141 Google Maps
CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
9 March 1942 |
AD842 |
408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
3 |
nr RAF North Luffenham |
|
w/o |
11 April 1942 |
AT186 |
408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
0 |
Clifton Pastures SE of Beeston |
|
unk |
13 April 1942 |
AT120 |
408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
4 |
Missing |
|
mis |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Dec-2017 21:18 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
06-Oct-2018 18:00 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
18-Apr-2020 09:00 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
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