ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 236055
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| Date: | Wednesday 12 August 1942 |
| Time: | 03:05 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 78 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | W1061 |
| MSN: | EY-? |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Wommelgem, Antwerp -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St George, County Durham |
Takeoff at 21:37 hrs local time for an operation to Mainz in Germany.
The aircraft was coned in the target area and severely hit by Flak, taking out both port engines and injuring several of the crew. The Halifax was finished off by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Kurt Loos of the 1./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 F-4 from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.
The two crew members who did not survive rest in the Schoonselhof Cemetery at Antwerpen.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W1061
Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 2 June 1942 | W7698 | 78 Sqn RAF | 3 | near Genneper Weg 2, Reichswald at Kranenburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen |  |
w/o |
| 26 June 1942 | W1067 | 78 Sqn RAF | 3 | IJsselmeer SSW of Hindeloopen, Friesland |  |
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| 27 July 1942 | W1184 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea |  |
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| 6 August 1942 | W1180 | 78 Sqn RAF | 3 | Sint Odiliënberg - Posterholt; Limburg | |
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| 29 August 1942 | W7809 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | Abstract, Overijse, Flemish Brabant | |
w/o |
| 10 September 1942 | DT491 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | near Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 24 September 1942 | R9447 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea N of Terschelling, Friesland | |
mis |
| 26 September 1942 | W7822 | 78 Sqn RAF | 8 | Wadden Sea 1.5 km E of Hörnum, Schleswig-Holstein | |
w/o |
| 1 October 1942 | W1036 | 78 Sqn RAF | 4 | Sehestedt, Schleswig-Holstein | |
w/o |
| 2 October 1942 | W1275 | 78 Sqn RAF | 6 | north of Herongen, Straelen, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 25 June 1943 | JB962 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | 1 km northwest of Zons, Dormagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 28 May 1944 | LW519 | 78 Sqn RAF | 1 | RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, England |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-May-2020 18:28 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 26-Jun-2022 01:41 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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