ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51019
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| Date: | Saturday 22 January 1944 |
| Time: | 00:35 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 466 Sqn RAAF |
| Registration: | HX312 |
| MSN: | HD-X |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Kribbenbrug, De Lutte, Overijssel -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Leconfield |
| Magdeburg |
HD-K "King" 466 Squadron RAAF. Returning from successful bombing mission over Magdeburg. Hedge-hopping home. Off track to port of given track due to NW gales. Attacked (single pass only) at 00.35hrs by Ober Lt Hans Heinz Augenstein 7 NGJ1 (ex Twente). Port inner motor hit twice and wing root damaged by cannon fire. Fuel tank caught on fire and p/wing later separated. Wreckage impacted v/acute angle due uncontrolled spiral dive consistent with h/speed wing failure. Port wing found some 200 m away. Fatalities: 5 viz. Flt Sgt C G Johnston Pilot (Aust), Sgt L Wykes (WO/AG), Sgt S Hennan (F/E), Sgt J F Morgan (MUG), and Flt Sgt J K Thompson(Aust) (R/G). Flt Sgt's L Doust NAV (Aust) & Flt Sgt J Dobson (BA) NZ both POWs. All except Thompson exited the A/C. Doust and Dobson parachutes caught in trees, Wykes, Hennan, Johnston and Morgan all landed in ploughed field. Estimated jump height only 250m. Flt Sgt Thompson found in r/turret badly wounded from attack and later also died. All 5 buried with military honours by Germans at De Lutte RC Church-yard 26 January 1944. Combat only given as a Probable. Augenstein's 26th claim.
Sources:
http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1944%20sec_tcm5-7285.pdf
Doust family archives. 466 Sqdn Ops Log. NJG Claims. Personal testimonial of Navigator.
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3321&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 28-Mar-2010 02:33 | dabuid | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-Mar-2010 22:18 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 30-Jul-2010 05:14 | dabuid | Updated [Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 10-Jan-2012 16:05 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Source] |
| 04-Jun-2016 20:47 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 06-Dec-2019 20:29 | TigerTimon | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source] |
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