ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 248525
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| Date: | Thursday 17 August 1944 |
| Time: | 03:15 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 420 (Snowy Owl) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | MZ687 |
| MSN: | PT-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 9 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea, some 70 nm off Dutch coast -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Tholthorpe, North Yorkshire |
| Kiel |
Takeoff at 21:01 hrs for a bombing operation against Kiel in Germany.
Claim by Arnold Brinkmann 8/NJG3 - West of Heligoland at 03:15.
Claim not officially listed by OKL, nor listed in OKL/RLM 8/NJG3. Confirmed Abschussubersicht.
Crashed in the Baltic.
Sgt Proud promoted to A/Plt Off wef 24 July 1944. Gazetted 26 September 1944.
Plt Off Proud was part of Trupp 28. He arrived at Bankau on 29 August 1944.
Crew
Pilot: J/86684 Fg Off Gordon Featherstone Pritchard RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 248.
2nd Pilot: J/87194 Plt Off Robert Henry Davies RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 249.
Flight Engineer: 55954 Plt Off Edwin Alfred James Proud - PoW/Stalag Luft VII Bankau near Kreuzburg Upper Silesia/PoW Number 676.
Navigator: J/J/245555 Fg Off Francis Wilfred Moffit RCAF - Kiel War Cemetery Plot 3 Row C Grave 13.
Bomb Aimer: J/27283 Fg Off Dalton Irvon Block RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 245.
Wireless Operator: R/155256 WOII Dennis Budd Herman Lorenz RCAF - Kiel War Cemetery Plot 5 Row C Grave 8.
Air Gunner: J/92616 Plt Off Kenneth George Boucock RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 249.
Mid Upper Gunner: J89305 Plt Off. Charles Pittman Surles - Kiel War Cemetery 3.C.17
Rear Gunner: J/89305 Fg Off Antonio George Roski RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 248.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 4 - Theo Boiten
https://aircrewremembered.com/pritchard-gordon.html
https://vimeo.com/145254268
Google Maps
The Long Road - Oliver Clutton-Brock
CWGC
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 25 April 1944 | MZ503 | 420 (City of London) Sqn RCAF | 5 | Waal river near Zuilichem, Gelderland | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Mar-2021 10:52 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 24-Jun-2022 09:19 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 05-May-2023 05:36 | Anon. | Updated [[Location]] |
| 29-Jan-2024 11:06 | Anon. | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
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