Date:	Friday 28 April 1944
Time:	01:33 claim
Type:	Handley Page Halifax Mk II
Owner/operator:	419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	JN954
MSN:	VR-R
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Heer, Maastricht, Limburg -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Middleton St.George
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Middleton St.George at 23:26 to attack the railway yards at Montzen in 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; crashed at Heer in the SE suburbs of Maastricht. All are buried in the Maastricht General Cemetery:

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Roderick Austin McIvor RCAF J/85471 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Stanley James Rigden RCAF R/109302 [Killed]
Navigator : Warrant Officer Class II John Donald Bremner RCAF R/157928 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Stanley Herbert Goulding RCAF J/88393 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Warrant Officer William Thomas Claridge RCAF R/11959 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer Kenneth David Tucker RCAF J/89456 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer Edmund Ronald Dujay RCAF J/88394 [Killed]

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3633&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
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Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 199.
http://www.419squadron.com/headset.html
* Luftwaffe Night Fighter Combat Claims 1939-1945.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

1 March 1943	DT641	419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF	7	North Sea 8 km N of Ameland, Friesland		w/o
14 July 1943	BB323	419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF	1	near Venlo, Limburg		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
11-Jun-2016 14:16	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
10-Oct-2018 12:30	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
06-Apr-2020 08:36	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative]