ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49484
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| Date: | Tuesday 26 December 1944 |
| Time: | 16:30 LT |
| Type: |  Hawker Typhoon Mk IB |
| Owner/operator: | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | PD459 |
| MSN: | 5V- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | B.78 Eindhoven Airfield, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | B.78 Eindhoven |
| B.78 Eindhoven AB |
Operation - Armed Recce.
Hit by 20 mm Flak in fuel tank, engine quit over home base, crash-landed with one gear up at B.78 Eindhoven with dead engine.
Pilot - J/35843 F/O John Daniel Sweeney RCAF
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4860&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
The RCAF overseas the 6th year page 263
Paradie RCAF database http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=sweeney
Back to Normandy https://backtonormandy.org/my-page/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hawker-typhoon/110599-4152421.html
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 15 June 1944 | MN417 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Carpiquet Luftwaffe airfield |  |
w/o |
| 23 June 1944 | MN663 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | SW of Caen | |
w/o |
| 18 July 1944 | MN574 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Mesnil-Frementel | |
w/o |
| 19 August 1944 | PD448 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Near Vimoutiers, 50 km SE of Caen | |
w/o |
| 9 September 1944 | MP152 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Westerschelde near Hansweert, Zeeland | |
w/o |
| 27 September 1944 | PD458 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Near Goch, 9 km N of Laarbruch (NRW) |  |
w/o |
| 5 October 1944 | MN765 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Roman Catholic church at Zevenaar, Gelderland | |
w/o |
| 22 October 1944 | MP136 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Graafseweg road, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant | |
w/o |
| 11 November 1944 | MN547 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Follega, Friesland | |
sub |
| 19 November 1944 | MN357 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Maaseik, Limburg |  |
w/o |
| 19 November 1944 | PD607 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | 10 miles NE of Roermond, Limburg | |
sub |
| 21 November 1944 | MN124 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Rhede | |
w/o |
| 3 December 1944 | MN348 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Burden | |
w/o |
| 15 December 1944 | PD478 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Near Haltern, 11 km NNE Marl (NRW) | |
w/o |
| 24 December 1944 | PD492 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Düren (NRW), 6 km SE | |
w/o |
| 24 December 1944 | MN894 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Mayen | |
w/o |
| 27 December 1944 | MP145 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | near Saint Vith, Liège | |
w/o |
| 29 December 1944 | MN791 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Coesfeld | |
w/o |
| 20 January 1945 | RB317 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Laffeld (NRW) | |
w/o |
| 22 January 1945 | MP134 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Uetterath, Heinsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 22 January 1945 | MN424 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | NW of Eersel, Noord-Brabant | |
sub |
| 30 March 1945 | RB435 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 1 | 7 km south of Lengerich, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 2 April 1945 | MN581 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Nordhorn, GB, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 23 April 1945 | SW525 | 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Ratzeburg | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 14-Apr-2013 13:55 | Uli Elch | Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-May-2013 16:50 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 01-Jun-2013 08:47 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 29-Aug-2013 22:05 | JINX | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 31-Mar-2015 06:21 | Lorenzo Lamas | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative] |
| 25-May-2015 19:27 | H.Shaft | Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport] |
| 27-Aug-2017 18:37 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 19-Dec-2017 17:51 | tachel | Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-Dec-2017 10:06 | tachel | Updated [Narrative] |
| 30-Oct-2019 15:24 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Dec-2020 20:58 | tachel | Updated [Narrative] |
| 17-Jun-2022 03:13 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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