ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 243455
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| Date: | Thursday 25 May 1944 |
| Time: | 00:47 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | HX352 |
| MSN: | AL-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Leopoldsbure area, Limburg -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire |
| Aachen Railway Yards |
Take off at 22:57 hrs for an operation against Aachen in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted and shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Strüning & Oberleutnant Apel of the 3./NJG 1, who had taken off from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands at 23:20 hrs, in Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+EL. This was credited as Struning's 44th victory.
Those who perished were initially buried in Brusthem (St Trond) Cemetery
Plt Off Michell RCAF Grave 495.
Sgt Jolley - Grave 492.
Fg Off McKenzie RCAF - Grave 496.
Fg Off Nazar RCAF - Grave 494.
Plt Off MacDonald - Grave 497.
Reinterred 28 April 1947.
Sgt Smith - Grave 493.
Sgt Lapointe was part of Trupp 1. He arrived at Bankau on 6 June 1944.
Crew
Pilot: J/86653 Plt Off James Lloyd Michell RCAF - Heverlee War Cemetery Plot 5 Row C Grave 12.
Flight Engineer: 2206449 Sgt Joseph Issac Jolley - Heverlee War Cemetery Plot 5 Row C Grave 9.
Navigator: J/24660 Fg Off Daniel Neilson McKenzie RCAF - Heverlee War Cemetery Plot 5 Row C Grave 13.
Bomb Aimer: J/27731 Fg Off Peter Nazar RCAF - Heverlee War Cemetery Plot 5 Row C Grave 11.
Wireless Operator: J/87169 Plt Off James Ignatius MacDonald RCAF - Heverlee War Cemetery Plot 5 Row C Grave 14.
Mid Upper Gunner: R/187666 Sgt Harold Donald Lapointe RCAF - PoW/Stalag Luft VII Bankau Upper Silesia/PoW Number 46.
Rear Gunner: 1337225 Sgt Alec Norman Smith - Heverlee War Cemetery Plot 5 Row C Grave 10.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=HX352
Google Maps
CWGC
The Long Road - Oliver Clutton-Brock
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 20 January 1944 | LL197 | 429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF | 6 | woods near Zeetze, Amt Neuhaus, Niedersachsen |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Sep-2020 16:45 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 16-May-2023 01:35 | redsix | Updated |
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