ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 236318
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Date: | Thursday 3 September 1942 |
Time: | 02:08 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | X3711 |
MSN: | VR-R |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Warnant, Anhée, Namur -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Topcliffe, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:53 hrs local time for an operation to Karlsruhe in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Kurt Martinek of the 9./NJG 4, who was flying a Bf 110 from Juvincourt airfield in France.
On board was none other than the Commander-in-Chief of 419 Squadron, Wing Commander Archibald Walsh DFC, AFC (30 y.). It was to be his penultimate mission - after all, a pilot in the Bomber Command was expected to fly at least thirty missions during a first 'tour'. The other unfortunates - four Canadians - were P/O John H. Freestone, 31 years old, pilot - F/O Harry W. Thompson, 22 years old, observer - F/Sgt Frederick Cassidy, 25 years old, radio operator and P/O Charles G. Hart, 25 years old, tail gunner.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/wellington-bij-warnant-lez-dinant http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=X3711 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
6 August 1942 |
X3360 |
419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF |
6 |
Bedburg-Hau, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
5 October 1942 |
BJ729 |
419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF |
5 |
Meerssenerweg, Maastricht, Limburg |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-May-2020 18:52 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
26-Jun-2022 03:25 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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