ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49502
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| Date: | Sunday 24 December 1944 |
| Time: | 12:35 |
| Type: |  Hawker Typhoon Mk IB |
| Owner/operator: | 440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | PD462 |
| MSN: | I8-K |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Maarheeze, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | B.78 Eindhoven |
Operation - Armed recce, part of 2 plane escort.
Aircraft shot down by fighter pilot and Staffelführer of the 13. Staffel/JG 3, Hauptmann Wolfgang Kosse. The Luftwaffe pilot flew Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-9 'weisse 6' from Gütersloh airfield, Germany.
The Typhoon pilot perished, an American serving in the RCAF, J/25085 F/O William Thomas Dunkeld of Pontiac Michigan. He is buried at Jonkerbos cemetery in Gelderland; grave 8 D 3.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4838&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Google Maps
Prien: JG 3 Lists f. 362
Prien, IV./JG3 s. 347
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=25085
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=pd462
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 4 May 1944 | MN431 | 440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Just west of Eastleigh, Hants. |  |
w/o |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 14-Apr-2013 13:59 | Uli Elch | Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-May-2013 16:48 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 01-Jun-2013 08:52 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 29-Aug-2013 22:09 | JINX | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Nov-2014 16:57 | Emil Robot | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 26-Oct-2019 15:36 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 08-Jan-2021 03:32 | tachel | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
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