ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50378
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| Date: | Saturday 17 June 1944 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | MZ292 |
| MSN: | DY-C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea 100 km west of Zandvoort, Noord-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Pocklington |
Took off from RAF Pocklington at 22:52 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Sterkrade/Holten in Germany.
Homeward-bound, crashed under unknown circumstances.
Flt Sgt Kelso was found on 12 July and he lies in Vlieland in the general cemtery. Sgt Bartram was washed up on 17 August and laid to rest in Westerschelling General Cemetery on Terschelling; Sgt Jenkins was found on 29 August and he now rest in the war cemtery at Bergen op Zoom. The others are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial:
Flt sgt J G W Kelso (KIA)
Sgt A Smith (KIA)
Sgt J C Gibson (KIA)
Sgt T E Hill (KIA)
Sgt R Bartram (KIA)
Sgt N Howarth (KIA)
Sgt D W Jennings (KIA)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 285.
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3796&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 3 December 1942 | W7913 | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF | 8 | between Resteigne and Grupont, Tellin, Luxembourg |  |
w/o |
| 25 June 1943 | JB834 | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF | 7 | north of Welldorf, Jülich, Nordrhein-Westfalen |  |
w/o |
| 26 November 1943 | HR811 | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF | 1 | vicinity of Frankfurt am Main, Hessen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 15-Jul-2015 13:02 | gerard57 | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Jan-2016 14:49 | JIXN | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 19-Jan-2016 18:03 | Opietz | Updated [Operator] |
| 17-Jun-2016 17:27 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Oct-2018 17:01 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 07-Oct-2020 17:15 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Oct-2020 17:16 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time] |
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