ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50558
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| Date: | Sunday 23 April 1944 |
| Time: | 01:55 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 76 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | MZ578 |
| MSN: | MP-I |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Wachelderbosch near Gulpen, Limburg -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor |
Took off from RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor at 22:36 hrs for an operation to Düsseldorf in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Rudolf Frank of the 3./NJG 3, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Vechta airfield in Germany.
Abandoned from 19,000 feet and crashed near Gulpen in the Province of Limburg.
Crew:-
Pilot : Squadron Leader Stanley Alan Somerscales DFC RAFVR 136222 (NCO:1072269 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 19 January, 1943) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Flying Officer Sidney William Stephen RAF 157576 (NCO:971362 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 26 October, 1943) [PoW]
Navigator : Flying Officer John Hedley Lewis RAF 78051 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 09 April, 1940) [Evaded]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Lieutenant Sydney Thomas Wingham DFC RAF 156389 (NCO:1318987 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 05 October, 1943) [Evaded]
Wireless Operator : Flying Officer John Harold Reavill DFM RAF 144164 (NCO:1185888 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 18 May, 1943) [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Harry Raymond Poole RAFVR 1576815 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Frederick John Rowe RAF 1191426 [PoW]
The casualties are buried at Maastricht Cemetery, the Netherlands.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3611&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
https://www.sites.google.com/site/oorloginlimburg/home/luchtoorlog/vgulpen
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 179.
http://aircrewremembered.com/somerscales-stanley.html
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.warcemetery.eu/pagina200.html&prev=search
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 28-Nov-2014 09:35 | gerard57 | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Dec-2014 08:32 | Oezil 007 | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport] |
| 10-Jun-2016 10:46 | Anon. | Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 12-Nov-2018 08:57 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 01-Apr-2020 12:50 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 22-Apr-2024 06:47 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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