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Date: | Sunday 23 April 1944 |
Time: | 02:00 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 424 (Tiger) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | LV780 |
MSN: | QB-M |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Abcovensedijk dyke, Goirle, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Skipton-on-Swale |
Destination airport: | Dusseldorf |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Skipton-on-Swale at 22:30 hrs for an operation to Düsseldorf in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Modrow & Unteroffizier Schneider of the 2./NJG 1, who had taken off from Venlo airfield at 00.10-15 hrs, in He 219 A-0 G9+GK.
Those who died were buried in Goirle Roman Catholic Cemetery, but since 1945 the four RCAF members of crew have been taken to Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery. Sgt Walters had been born Lionel Cohen and he came from Golders Green in Middlesex.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Wilfred Ferdinand Vornbrock RCAF J/87663 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 03 December, 1940) [Killed] Bergen op Zoom RCAF cemetery; grave 11 E 9
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Lionel Walters RAFVR 1850361 [Killed] Goirle cemetery; grave 1 3 / Jew, formerly Cohen
Navigator : Pilot Officer John Seddon Laird RCAF J/87503 [Killed] Bergen op Zoom RCAF cemetery; grave 11 E 4
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Frederick Peter Cammaart RCAF J/88363 [Killed] Bergen op Zoom RCAF cemetery; grave 12 E 3
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Leslie Hanson RAFVR 1131665 [Killed] Goirle cemetery; grave 1 1
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer John James Renning RCAF J/91048 [Killed] Bergen op Zoom RCAF cemetery; grave 11 E 6
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Frank Patrick Morrisey RCAF 166374 [PoW]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3612&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 180.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
10-Jun-2016 11:51 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
04-Feb-2018 20:13 |
tachel |
Updated [Operator] |
13-Oct-2018 16:51 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
01-Apr-2020 12:07 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
22-Apr-2024 06:53 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |