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Date: | Sunday 28 May 1944 |
Time: | 02:15 |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 432 (Leaside) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | LK811 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Leopoldsburg, Limburg, Noord-Brabant -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF East Moor, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Halifax LK811: Took off 23:50 hrs for to bomb the military camp at Bourg-Léopold. 27/05/1944
Shot down by Oberleutnant Hans-Heinz Augenstein and credited as his 33rd victory, and third of three on the night, all within four minutes. Crashed in Budel, WNW of Weert, Holland at 02:15 hrs. 28/05/1944
Crew:
Sgt Robert Seymour HALL (R/158758) RCAF: POW
Sgt Walter Scott ROWAN (1344656) RAFVR: POW
F/O J GOUINLOCK (J/24556) RCAF Evader
F/O D E RUTHERFORD (J/26725) RCAF Evader
Sgt John CLARKE (1300857) RAFVR: killed
P/O Howard John MENZIES (J/86541) Pilot RCAF: killed
Sgt Thomas Findlay McCLAY (1795998) RAFVR: killed
P/O Herbert Henry RODGERS (J/89733) RCAF: killed
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses by W R Chorley, 1944, page 247
Theo Boiten: Nachtjagd 1944 vol 3, p. 028.
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