ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 48939
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Date: | Friday 30 March 1945 |
Time: | 14:25 |
Type: | Hawker Typhoon Mk IB |
Owner/operator: | 247 (China British) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | MM979 |
MSN: | ZY-O |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Voorstonden hamlet, Brummen, Gelderland -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft crashed while engaged in an armed recce operation. Sergeant B.V. Clinton did not survive and rests at Amersfoort cemetery in the province of Utrecht. The grave inscription reads:
"DEARLY BELOVED"
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T5459&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
2020 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
2 January 1945 |
MP201 |
247 (China British) Sqn RAF |
0 |
B.78 Eindhoven Airfield, Noord-Brabant |
|
w/o |
Mid-air collision |
Media:
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
23-Mar-2020 10:14 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
07-Aug-2021 09:26 |
Anon. |
Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Narrative, Operator] |
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