ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49598
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| Date: | Tuesday 28 November 1944 |
| Time: | 10:45 LT |
| Type: |  Hawker Typhoon Mk IB |
| Owner/operator: | 198 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | JP900 |
| MSN: | TP-O |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Beesdseweg-Parallelweg West, Culemborg, Gelderland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | B.77 Gilze-Rijen (takeoff at 10:25 hrs) |
The aircraft was hit by Flak and crash-landed near 'de Heuvel' farm at Culemborg.
The pilot, F/Lt. D.G. Colebrook, was taken prisoner of war.
In the morning of the 28th, nineteen Typhoons took off from Gilze-Rijen for an armed recce operation. The target of the aircraft were the headquarters of the 88. Armeekorps of General der Infanterie H. Reinhard, located in a school at Houten, province of Utrecht. Some Dutch civilians were killed in the attack and fourteen houses were destroyed.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4747&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
book 'Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd'
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 August 1943 | JP516 | 198 Sqn RAF | 0 | near hamlet Scherpbier, 2 km south of Groede, Zeeland | |
sub |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 22-Oct-2019 14:31 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Oct-2019 18:17 | TigerTimon | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Jun-2022 10:11 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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