ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 279932
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| Date: | Friday 2 February 1945 |
| Time: | 23:42 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 78 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | NA167 |
| MSN: | EY-F |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Friedrichsfeld, Voerde, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Breighton |
The Staffelkapitän of 3./NJG 2 (based at Twente, the Netherlands) Oberleutnant Breithaupt in Ju 88 G-6 4R+RL suffered a failure of his SN-2 radar immediately after take off but, making a visual search in Map Square KO, came across 78 Squadron Halifax NA167. He recorded in his Leistungsbuch:
“Attack with the use of slanting armament, one burst of 20 shells. Aircraft flew on, burning fiercely, for just over one minute, before going down in a dive, impacted with a dark red explosion.”
The Halifax had taken off at 20:26 hrs for an operation against Wanne-Eickel at Herne.
Those who perished rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1945
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=NA167&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
Google Maps
History of this aircraft
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| 29 April 1942 | W7663 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | Missing - North Sea |  |
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| 2 June 1942 | W1143 | 78 Sqn RAF | 6 | Haringvliet off Hellevoetsluis, Zuid-Holland |  |
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| 26 July 1943 | JD330 | 78 Sqn RAF | 4 | near Beeckerwerth, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
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| 27 September 1943 | JD416 | 78 Sqn RAF | 8 | between Eckerde - Großgoltern (Barsinghausen, Niedersachsen) | |
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| 13 June 1944 | LV820 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | Bosc-Mesnil, Seine-Maritime département | |
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| 21 November 1944 | MZ810 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | near Spaldington (near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England) |  |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Jul-2022 08:59 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 02-Jul-2022 09:00 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
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