ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 228050
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| Date: | Tuesday 20 October 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed Hudson Mk VI |
| Owner/operator: | 407 (Demon) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | EW921 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Location: | Missing - Bay of Biscay -
 Spain
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| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF St Eval, Cornwall, England |
Ex USAAF A-28A. With No. 407 Squadron, RCAF when lost on an anti-submarine patrol over the Bay of Biscay on 20 October 1942.
Pilot: R/82050 WO2 Moses Zumar (RCAF)
Nav: R/86378 F/Sgt George Alvin Keil (RCAF)
AG: 1191563 F/Sgt Leslie Arthur Merchant (RAF)
AG: 1192758 F/Sgt Thomas Henry Grain (RAF)
AG: 1258661 F/Sgt Horace james Woolatt (RAF)
Sources:
http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RAF_owned_DV100.html
https://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=knp51&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&dbid=9145&cp=0&_F4E2F07A=r86378&new=1&rank=1&uidh=v66&redir=false&msT=1&gss=angs-d&pcat=39&fh=0&h=3169&recoff=&ml_rpos=1
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1532323
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1802516
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1532087/woollatt,-horace-james/
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1076732/merchant,-leslie-arthur/
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1798667/grain,-thomas-henry/
https://wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/allied/royalairforce/sqdview.php?pid=558
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Aug-2019 10:43 | tachel | Added |
| 09-Aug-2019 20:27 | tachel | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Aug-2019 06:48 | tachel | Updated [Departure airport, Source] |
| 18-Apr-2022 04:53 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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