ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50442
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| Date: | Sunday 28 May 1944 |
| Time: | 02:15 claim |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 432 (Leaside) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | LK811 |
| MSN: | QO-N |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Budel, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF East Moor, North Yorkshire |
Takeoff at 23:50 hrs for a bombing operation against the military camp at Leopoldsburg, Belgium.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hans-Heinz Augenstein of the 12./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Belgium.
Four crew members died. Three of them were never found. Four crew members survived the crash:
Pilot / F/Sgt. H.J. Menzies R/157627 RCAF / Groesbeek RCAF cemetery (Gelderland); grave 16 B 11 J/86541
Second Pilot / Sgt. R.S. Hall R/158628 RCAF / prisoner of war
Flight Engineer / Sgt. J. Clarke 1300857 RAF / Runnymede Memorial; panel 227
Navigator / F/O. J. Gouinlock J/24556 RCAF / evader
Bomb Aimer / F/O. D.E. Rutherford J/26725 RCAF / evader
Wireless Operator/ Air Gunner / Sgt. W.S. Rowan 1344656 RAF / evader, prisoner of war (was arrested 6th June at Antwerp)
Mid Upper Gunner / W/O. II H.H. Rogers R/57957 RCAF / Runnymede Memorial; panel 252
Rear Gunner / Sgt. T.F. McClay 1795998 RAF / Runnymede Memorial; panel 233
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3728&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Google Maps
https://www.tracesofwar.nl/sights/96295/Toom-Crash-Monument-1944.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 24-Aug-2017 15:20 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Oct-2020 11:18 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 12-Jun-2022 11:51 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 12-Jun-2022 22:56 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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