ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51659
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Date: | Tuesday 29 June 1943 |
Time: | 02:34 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 10 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | DT783 |
MSN: | ZA-Q |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Wolfsput, Aarle-Rixtel, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Melbourne, Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Major Günther Radusch of the Stab II./NJG 3 (detached to Stab I./NJG 1), flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Venlo airfield.
Target: Köln, Germany
Takeoff time: 23:37
The crew is buried at the Eindhoven cemetery:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Stanley Peate RAFVR 117424 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Horace Pape RAF 547328 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Paul Leopold Rakoczy RCAF R/137366 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Horace Horatio Pearson RAFVR 134671 [Killed] (NCO:1432822 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 09 February, 1943)
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Alfred Bailey RAFVR 1081675 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Harry Erickson RCAF R/116318 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Joseph Gerald Swe (NCO:1430690 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 26 May, 1942)eney RCAF R/90889 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=&date=&location=&pn=DT783&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/42/Killed-Airmen-Memorial.htm Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
14-Sep-2014 12:09 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
15-Nov-2018 20:06 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
19-Nov-2018 19:41 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
28-Jun-2023 07:28 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [[Operator, Departure airport, Operator]] |
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