ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 239013
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| Date: | Saturday 13 May 1944 |
| Time: | 00:49 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk X |
| Owner/operator: | 419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | KB710 |
| MSN: | VR-W |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Veertig Bunder, Halle, Flemish Brabant -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St George, County Durham |
Takeoff at 21:55 hrs for an operation against the railway yards at Leuven.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Martin Drewes (Kommandeur of the III./NJG 1), who had taken off from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands at 23:49 hrs, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+DS. This was his 33rd victory.
P/O Harold I. Smith RCAF, pilot, 26 years old, from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (row 19, grave 13)
Sgt Ronald Bull, onboard meccano, 22 years old, from Brackley, Northamptonshire (row 19, grave 2)
F/O James L. Moore RCAF, navigator, 25 years old, from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Row 19, Grave 3)
F/O Walter R. Finlayson RCAF, bomber, 21 years old, from Okanagan Landing, British Columbia, Canada (row 19, grave 12).
F/O Walter W. Price RCAF, radio operator, 22 , from Montreal (row 19, communal grave 9-11)
Sgt John C. O'Connell RCAF, gunner, 22 years old, from Westmount Quebec, Canada (Row 16, Grave 5).
Sgt Samuel G. Livingstone RCAF, air gunner, 22 years old, from Winnipeg (row 16, grave 22).
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/lancaster-te-sint-genesius-rode
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=KB710
research by J. Preston (research of first hand information from Belgians who witnessed and documented the crash site)
Google Maps
Theo Boiten: Nachtjagd 1944 vol 3, p. 006.
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Aug-2020 14:51 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 17-Aug-2020 15:25 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Source] |
| 26-Sep-2020 21:55 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Accident report] |
| 28-Sep-2020 18:32 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location] |
| 07-Nov-2022 01:38 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 07-May-2023 07:23 | Anon. | Updated [[Location]] |
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