ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50814
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| Date: | Saturday 4 March 1944 |
| Time: | 13:00 |
| Type: |  North American P-51 Mustang III |
| Owner/operator: | 19 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | FZ188 |
| MSN: | QV- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Sint John of News Huyse, Korte Zuidweg, Borssele, Zeeland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Gravesend, Kent |
Mustang Mk.III (FZ188) of No.19 Squadron - Gravesend Kent - crashed at the following place and time: Flt.Sgt. Thomas Henry Redgate. His remains were buried on March 6, 1944 at the Northern Cemetery Flushing.
The aircraft was on a Ramrod operation to Köln, Germany.
Ramrod - bomber raid escorted by fighters aimed at destruction of a specific target in daylight.
In a statement on May 1, 1947, in the municipality is Borssele, indicated that, by the afternoon at 13.00 hours, on the land of St. John of News Huyse at Korte Zuidweg an allied plane crashed.
The pilot, which the Germans said that was British, was killed. Identification could not occur because both the body and the plane were seriously burned. The remains were transferred to the post commandant of the Boressle Constabulary, and a driver, to take to the North Cemetery, where unknown this pilot was interred
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3491&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://www.wingstovictory.nl/database/pdf/373-story.pdf
http://www.airwar39-45.nl/media/Downloads/SGLO_Verlieslijst_T_1944_versie_02_28-09-2010.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 9 September 1944 | FX887 | 19 Sqn RAF | 1 | Hall, mun. Brummen, Gelderland | |
w/o |
| 9 September 1944 | FB148 | 19 Sqn RAF | 1 | near Zutphen, Gelderland | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 02-Oct-2011 16:05 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 12-Nov-2011 23:31 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Operator] |
| 01-Mar-2019 16:50 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Jun-2022 22:00 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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