Accident Hawker Typhoon Mk IB MN936,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 203125
 
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Date:Saturday 24 March 1945
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic typh model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Hawker Typhoon Mk IB
Owner/operator:439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF
Registration: MN936
MSN: 5V-B
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Oberhausen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:B.78 Eindhoven NL
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Hit by flak, crashed neat Dingden Germany.
Pilot was J/36997 F/O William Anderson RCAF.

Sources:

439 SQN archives.
Veterans Affairs Canada
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2036530
Back to Normandy
https://backtonormandy.org/my-page/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hawker-typhoon/110587-4152409.html

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
1 January 1945 MN589 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF 1 near the Hazenhutsedijk road at De Rips, Noord-Brabant w/o

Revision history:

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19-Dec-2017 17:53 tachel Added

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