ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50367
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| Date: | Saturday 17 June 1944 |
| Time: | 01:00 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 434 (Bluenose) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | LW433 |
| MSN: | WL-W |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Nederheide, Rucphen, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Croft |
Took off from RAF Croft at 22:54 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 Unteroffizier Hugo Oppermann of the 1./NJG 1, who had taken off from Venlo airfield at 23:23 hrs for a Himmelbett patrol in a Heinkel He 219 A-0; crashed at Nederheide near Zundert, a largish village on the main road between the Dutch town of Breda and Antwerpen. Sgt Agar, who was 18 and amongst the youngest airman killed on bomber operations in 1944, lies in Zundert Protestant Churchyard; both RCAF casualties rest in the Canadian section of Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery:
Plt Off F J Haldenby RCAF (POW)
Sgt P D V Ager (KIA)
Flt Sgt E J Downing RCAF (evader, POW (arrested 7th July at Antwerp))
Sgt J H Dougherty RCAF (POW)
WO2 W A Good RCAF (KIA)
Sgt T Inverarity RCAF (evaded)
Plt Off A E C Boehmer RCAF (KIA)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3806&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
http://www.omroepbrabant.nl/?news/2126871163/Crash+Engelse+bommenwerper+herdacht+in+Roosendaal,+Zundert+en+Wernhout.aspxm5-7285.pdf
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/haldenby-frederick.html
https://www.bhic.nl/ontdekken/verhalen/neergestorte-vliegtuigen-in-rucphen-1940-1945
https://aircrewremembered.com/haldenby-frederick.html
https://www.bndestem.nl/overig/familie-gesneuvelde-engelse-soldaat-bezoekt-graf-in-zundert~a7793cfa/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 April 1944 | LL258 | 434 (Bluenose) Sqn RCAF | 7 | Teuven, Voeren, Limburg |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Aug-2014 13:21 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Jun-2016 21:25 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Jun-2016 21:25 | Red Dragon | Updated [Operator] |
| 14-Oct-2018 16:27 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 07-Oct-2020 18:09 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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