ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 265105
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Date: | Monday 27 September 1943 |
Time: | 22:47 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 76 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | DK266 |
MSN: | MP-O |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Grapperhausen, Neuenkirchen-Vörden, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor, Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:09 hrs (local time) for an operation against Hannover.
The aircraft was shot down by Oberfeldwebel Werner Hellenbrucks of the 3./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.
All seven rest in the Rheinberg War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=DK266&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact Google Maps
Revision history:
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