ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50363
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| Date: | Saturday 17 June 1944 |
| Time: | 02:05 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 77 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | NA508 |
| MSN: | KN-A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Bovenkerkerpolder, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Full Sutton, East Yorkshire (EGNU) |
Took off from RAF Full Sutton at 23:15 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Sterkrade/Holten in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Martin Drewes of the Stab III./NJG 1, who had taken off from Leeuwarden airfield at 00:55 hrs, in a Bf 110 G-4.
In the early 1950's during drainage operations, the body of the wireless operator WO O'Meara was found and his remains rest in the Canadian section of the Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery. The others are commmeorated on the Runnymede Memoriak, but it is reported that all remains have since been recovered and taken to the cemetery at Bergen op Zoom (in the year 1990 the wreckage of the plane was excavated):
Flt Sgt R A W Blair RAAF (KIA)
Sgt H L Moore (KIA)
Flt Sgt L G Pratt RAAF (KIA)
Flt Sgt G A Armstrong RAAF (KIA)
WO J P O'Meara RAAF (KIA)
Sgt D G Tustin (KIA)
Fg J M Date RAAF (KIA)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3792&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
http://www.amstelveenweb.com/fotodisp&fotodisp=813
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 284.
http://www.missing-airmen.info/pageHalifax.html
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.amstelveenweb.com/fotodisp%26fotodisp%3D813&prev=search
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P07267.001
https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/explore/people/618375
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 12 August 1943 | JD125 | 77 Sqn RAF | 7 | La Saint-Denis, Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure |  |
w/o |
| 21 January 1944 | JD471 | 77 Sqn RAF | 6 | Zeitz, Sachsen-Anhalt |  |
w/o |
| 5 January 1945 | NZ360 | 77 Sqn RAF | 6 | 1 km southeast of Steinhude, Wunstorf, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Nov-2014 08:08 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Jun-2016 17:03 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Nov-2018 14:10 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 07-Oct-2020 18:29 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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