ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 235931
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| Date: | Wednesday 29 July 1942 |
| Time: | 01:56 LT |
| Type: |  Short Stirling Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | BF309 |
| MSN: | HA-M |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near the Wesselburener Loch off Dithmarschen; Schleswig-Holstein -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Downham Market, Norfolk |
Takeoff at 23:22 hrs for an operation to Hamburg.
Homeward-bound, already damaged by flak over target, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Karl Kades of the 5./NJG 3, who had taken off from Schleswig airfield.
Survivors were interned at Stalag 344 Lamsdorf, Germany.
Those who did not survive rest at the Kiel War Cemetery, Germany.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BF309
Google Maps
218 Sqn war records from The National Archives UK
Personnel file of Sgt Harp from Ancestry.c (Archives Canada)
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2356462
https://218squadron.wordpress.com/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 20 August 1942 | W7615 | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF | 7 | Baltic south of the island of Ærø |  |
w/o |
| 22 April 1944 | EH942 | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF | 2 | between Vivières in Aisne (02) - Hautefontaine in Oise (60) |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 12-May-2020 12:55 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 19-Mar-2021 20:55 | Anon. | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 29-Oct-2023 16:37 | tachel | Updated [[Operator, Operator]] |
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