ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 234600
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| Date: | Tuesday 18 April 1944 |
| Time: | 23:52 claim |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 158 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LV954 |
| MSN: | NP-Q |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Damery, Somme département -
 France
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Lissett, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Takeoff at 21:03 hrs for an operation to the railway yard at Tergnier in Aisne.
The aircraft was brought down in a Schräge Musik attack, by the night fighter crew of Oblt. Hager, Uffz. von Bergen & Uffz. Körschgen of the 6./NJG 1, who had taken off from Saint-Dizier airfield in Haute-Marne, in a Bf 110 G-4.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Peter Kettles-Roy RAFVR 174614 (NCO:791166 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 23 May, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Leslie Sowden RAF 1036187 [PoW]
Navigator : Flying Officer Peter George Taylor RAF 55029 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant George McEwan RAFVR 1552110 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant Robert Wallis Wright RAAF Aus/410780 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Michael Madden RAFVR 1874494 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Alan Francis Kneller RAFVR 1608360 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=1004
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 14 July 1942 | DG227 | 158 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea 15 miles SSE of Great Yarmouth, England |  |
w/o |
| 24 March 1945 | MZ759 | 158 Sqn RAF | 4 | near Gladbeck, Nordrhein-Westfalen |  |
w/o |
Images:
Taken from the register at the Grand-Seraucourt Cemetery
Taken from the register at the Grand-Seraucourt Cemetery
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 31-Mar-2020 19:10 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 31-Mar-2020 19:13 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location] |
| 15-Sep-2022 18:50 | Anon. | Updated [Photo] |
| 15-Sep-2022 18:51 | Anon. | Updated [Photo] |
| 15-Sep-2022 20:05 | Anon. | Updated [Total fatalities] |
| 18-Apr-2024 07:01 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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