Date:	Friday 28 April 1944
Time:	01:40 LT
Type:	Handley Page Halifax Mk V
Owner/operator:	434 (Bluenose) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	LL243
MSN:	WL-U
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Cartilserveldweg road, Eys, Limburg -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Croft
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 23:02 hrs for an operation to railway yards at Montzen in Belgium.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Georg Fengler of the Stab IV./NJG 1, who had taken off from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield (Belgium) in Bf 110 G-4 G9+CF.
Four Canadian crew members died in the crash. They are buried at Maastricht Cemetery, the Netherlands.
The nickname of the plane was ‘the Bluenose Outlaw’. Fg Off Stacey RCAF was aided by the Belguim patriots while Fg Off Arscott was helped by the Dutch.

Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Gerald Frederick Maffre RCAF J/10973 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Allan William Fuller RAF 1835994 [PoW]
Navigator : Flying Officer A G Stacey RCAF 20960 [Evaded]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer John Edward James Arscott RAF 131776 (NCO:1238490 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 08 December, 1942) [Evaded]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Pilot Officer Grenfell William Snow CdeGaP RCAF J/86562 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Robert Alexander Meek RCAF R/155027 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 21 September, 1943) [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer Vincent Joseph Cownden RCAF J/88410 [Killed]

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3634&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
https://sites.google.com/site/oorloginlimburg/home/luchtoorlog/vrcaf
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 200.
*Luftwaffe Night Fighter Combat Claims 1939-1945.
http://www.rcaf434squadron.com/91-100/single-gallery/5778582
http://www.warcemetery.eu/pagina201.htmlRob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

1 November 1944

NR114

434 (Bluenose) Sqn RCAF

5

Hinsbeck, Nettetal, Nordrhein-Westfalen

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
28-Nov-2014 09:10	gerard57	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative]
01-Dec-2014 08:33	Glock G19	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
11-Jun-2016 14:37	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
11-Nov-2018 13:30	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
06-Apr-2020 08:46	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
06-Apr-2020 08:47	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative]
27-Apr-2024 07:03	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]