ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50537
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| Date: | Friday 28 April 1944 |
| Time: | 02:30 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 640 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LW506 |
| MSN: | C8-X |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Dintelsas, Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Leconfield, Yorkshire |
| RAF Leconfield, Yorkshire |
A Handley Page Halifax Mk III took off from RAF Leconfield at 23:43 hours on the night of 27-28 April 1943. The mission was to attack the railway yards at Montzen, Belgium.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Thomeschat of the 3./NJG 4, who had taken off from Florennes airfield in Belgium.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Reginald Earnshaw RAFVR 172946 (NCO:1389154 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 18 April, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Charles Arthur Hensey RAFVR 1605140 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant Roger John Sampson RAFVR 1515480 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer John Riordan RAFVR 176158 (NCO:1577747 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 20 June, 1944) [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant William Mabon RAFVR 1496442 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant John Anthony Murphy RAAF Aus/427394 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant William Alfred Pullen RAFVR 924992 [Killed]
The entire crew are buried at a war cemetery in Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3635&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
http://www.bhic.nl/site/pagina.php?id=13616
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 201.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 13 May 1944 | NA492 | 640 Sqn RAF | 3 | RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, England |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 15-Apr-2014 11:47 | gerard57 | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Apr-2014 21:55 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 11-Jun-2016 15:44 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Nov-2018 12:49 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 14-Apr-2019 09:40 | harro | Updated [Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 06-Apr-2020 08:19 | TigerTimon | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Apr-2024 07:05 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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