ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50362
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| Date: | Saturday 17 June 1944 |
| Time: | 01:15 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 431 (Iroquois) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | NA514 |
| MSN: | SE-B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Grote Heide, Nistelrode, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Croft |
Took off from RAF Croft at 22:24 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Sterkrade/Holten in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Josef Nabrich of the 3./NJG 1, who was flying a Heinkel He 219 A-0 from Venlo airfield.
Three crew members, Pilot G Blachford, B/Aimer S Lough, R/Gunner L.Gould were buried at Uden, 5 km NW of the the crash site. Ft/Eng J Kennedy and Lid/Gunner D Hattey were captured and taken POW. WOP Tom Masdin evaded and was caught in Belgium and taken POW. Navigator, F/O Roy Carter evaded before being caught in Tiburg on July 9th,1944, along with RAf pilot F/L Ron Walker and RAAF Nav, F/O Jack Nott. All three were executed by the German SD. Three of the SD were tried in Esson at the War crimes Trial in 1946 and hung.
News of his death reached the Allied authorities via Sgt Masdin RCAF, who himself may have intially evaded capture.(See 16/17 June 1944 Halifax MZ698 KN-J for story).
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3802&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 286.
https://na514.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/na514-photos-of-crew-others/
http://www.bombercrew.com/Carter/rcarter.htm
http://www.6bombergroup.ca/431Crews/pages/Blachfordcrew.html
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 13 May 1944 | MZ629 | 431 (Iroquois) Sqn RCAF | 6 | Middenhut, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Flemish Brabant |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 22-Feb-2012 22:20 | Fred Carter | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 18-Jun-2016 16:24 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Oct-2018 16:03 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 07-Oct-2020 19:35 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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