ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 266252
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Date: | Friday 6 October 1944 |
Time: | 20:48 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk VII |
Owner/operator: | 426 (Thunderbird) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | NP739 |
MSN: | OW-U |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Rhade, Dorsten, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 16:42 hrs for a bombing operation against Dortmund.
The aircraft was hit by heavy (schwere) Flak and crashed. Those who perished rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=NP739&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Aug-2021 14:46 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
04-Jun-2023 14:25 |
Anon. |
Updated |
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