ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 248449
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| Date: | Saturday 29 July 1944 |
| Time: | 01:37 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 424 (Tiger) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | LV997 |
| MSN: | QB-E |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | mud flats at Hillgroven, Schleswig-Holstein -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Skipton-on-Swale, Yorkshire |
Takeoff at 22:20 hrs for a bombing operation against Hamburg.
The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Schmidt, Fw. Schönfeld & Fw. Schlosser of the 8./NJG 1, who had taken off from Twente airfield in the Netherlands at 00:21 hrs, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+AS.
Crew:
Pilot: C198 W/C John Donald Blane (RCAF) Sqn CO - Killed - Kiel War Cemetery
Navigator: R/129859 WO2 John Daniel Burns (RCAF) - PoW - Stalag Luft L7 Bankau
Bomb AImer: J/20914 F/O Reginald Vincent Smyth (RCAF) - PoW - Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria
Flight Engineer: 1824486 Sgt William McAlpine (RAFVR) - PoW - Stalag Luft L7 Bankau
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: J/17500 F/L Clifford Gordon Kerr (RCAF) - PoW - Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria
Air Gunner: R/214600 F/Sgt Wilfred Edward Mylchreest (RCAF) - Stalag Luft L7 Bankau
Air Gunner: R/187753 F/Sgt James Roderique Power (RCAF) - Killed - Kiel War Cemetery
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LV997&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
Google Maps
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=lv997&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=LV997
424 (RCAF) Sqn war time records from RCAF historical microfilms and The National Archives UK
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2356182
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2356749
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Mar-2021 10:13 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 28-May-2023 00:07 | tachel | Updated |
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