Date:	Sunday 30 January 1944
Time:	22:10
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF
Registration:	JB659
MSN:	OF-J
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Machineweg 10, Halfweg, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Bourn, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Bourn at 1735. Homebound, shoot down by a night fighter and crashed 2210 near Zwanenburg (Noord Holland), roughly midway between Haarlem and Amsterdam.
The Bf 110 G-4 night fighter is flown by Oberleutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the 12./NJG 1, who had taken off from Leeuwarden airfield.
The bomber crashed into a farmhouse at Machineweg 10 and a raging fire develops, in which four children with their two parents succumb. They are Cor (42) & Adri (40), Harry (5), Johan (4), Tonny (3) and Ida (1).
Plt Off Hart RAAF and Flt Sgt Williams RCAF are buried in Haarlemmermeer (Zwanenburg) General Cemetery ; the other 5 crew members were discovered in the wreckage recovered during excavations for new docks and their remains buried together in a single coffin alongside the graves of the other 2 in an Amsterdam civilian cemetery on 29 Nov 2001.

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Allan Robert Hart RAAF Aus/412434 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Leslie Clifton RAFVR 1146496 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Harold James Boal RAAF Aus/409497 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Warrant Officer Gordon Ivan Williams RCAF R/119950 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant William Joseph Jones RAFVR 1131932 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Douglas Frederick Hicks RAFVR 1397995 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Price RCAF R/182206 [Killed]

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=&date=&location=&pn=JB659&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 66.
See this link re civilian casualties: http://www.firebynight.co.uk/Crew%20Hart.html
http://www.missing-airmen.info/PageHoutrakpolder.html
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.nfla.nl/JB659.html&prev=search
http://www.fijen.net/gallery/lancaster/lancaster.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1363887/Airmen-shot-down-in-1944-are-laid-to-rest.html
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gec-military-moderated/QCqO53HvhTo
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

15 August 1944

PB358

97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF

0

North Sea, off Dutch coast

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
05-Jun-2016 14:01	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
01-Nov-2018 15:19	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]
10-Nov-2018 22:38	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
24-Oct-2019 17:01	IanD	Updated [Narrative]
18-Dec-2019 11:15	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
07-Jan-2020 08:28	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative]
30-Jan-2024 07:50	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]