ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49772
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| Date: | Friday 6 October 1944 |
| Time: | 16:30 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 78 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | MZ310 |
| MSN: | EY-U |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Grote Bloksepolder, Oude-Tonge, Zuid-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Breighton, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Takeoff at 14:32 hrs for a Ramrod operation against the Hibernia AG synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer (Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany).
Over Zuid-Holland, the aircraft collided with Halifax LL588 of the same squadron.
Seven of the crew are buried at Bergen op Zoom cemetery, one crew member has never been identified:
Pilot F/O. Charles Wallace Crawford 183801 RAFVR grave 20B9 (NCO:657277, Gazette of 10th October 1944)
Second Pilot F/O. D.S. MacGregor J/26671 RCAF grave 20 B 11
Flight Engineer Sgt. A. Reilly 1673687 RAF grave 20 A 12
Navigator F/Sgt. C.R. Clement 1532013 RAF grave 20 B 1
Bomb Aimer Sgt. J.B. Anderton 1685678 RAF grave 20 B 3
Wireless Operator Sgt. J. Divens 1822288 RAF grave 20 B 7
Air Gunner Sgt. R. Heugh 1568930 RAF Runnymede Memorial; panel 231
Air Gunner F/Sgt. J.R. Charley 424912 RAAF grave 20 B 12
The ORB incorrectly states MX310 as the aircraft's serial.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4474&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
https://masterbombercraig.wordpress.com/bombing-operations/7th-sqadronpathfinder-operations-october-44/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 03-Oct-2019 13:27 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Dec-2021 09:04 | Rob Davis | Updated [Narrative] |
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