ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 265087
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Date: | Monday 27 September 1943 |
Time: | 23:17 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 78 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JD476 |
MSN: | EY-M |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 2 km northwest of Wiechendorf (Wedemark, Niedersachsen) -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Breighton, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:16 hrs (local time) for an operation against Hannover.
The aircraft was coned by a searchlight and hit by heavy (schwere) Flak; crashed.
All seven rest in the Rheinberg War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JD476&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact Google Maps
History of this aircraft
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5 May 1943 |
JB915 |
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near Epe, Gronau, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
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JN974 |
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0 |
Oirschot, Noord-Brabant |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Jul-2021 08:10 |
TigerTimon |
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