ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 267238
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Date: | Tuesday 21 October 1941 |
Time: | 12:54-13:10 |
Type: | Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb |
Owner/operator: | 611 (West Lancashire) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W3227 |
MSN: | FY-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Berck, Pas-de-Calais département -
France
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Hornchurch Essex (takeoff at 11:00 local time) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft was shot down by Bf 109's near Hardelot, while engaged in a fighter sweep against an airfield at Saint-Omer.
The Dutch pilot, Pilot Officer J.W.Y. Roeper Bosch did not survive; he rests in the Den Haag Oud Eik en Duinen cemetery, the Netherlands.
Sources:
SGLO database -
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/ahome/lossregister/results?sglo=T5620 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
5 September 1944 |
BR982 |
611 (West Lancashire) Sqn RAF |
0 |
near Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Aug-2021 12:11 |
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03-Oct-2022 17:00 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Source] |
03-Oct-2022 17:00 |
TigerTimon |
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