ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51950
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| Date: | Wednesday 5 May 1943 |
| Time: | 01:30 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | 76 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | DK134 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Doetinchemseweg, Kilder, Gelderland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, UK |
Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Wilhelm Dormann of the 9./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield. The entire crew survived the crash.
Target: Dortmund
Call Sign: MP-Y
Takeoff time: 22:06
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Jack Ingram Maitland Bell RAF 124841 (NCO:1388258 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 15 September, 1942) [PoW]
2nd Pilot : Sergeant Albert Edward Bumstead RAF 1384825 [PoW]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Alan Forster RAF 1247777 [PoW]
Navigator : Sergeant Harold Mitchell Farrington RAF 1236937 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Horac James Hamlyn RAF 1337099 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Donald Jack Marshall RAF 1186999 [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Donald Bellows Brown RCAF R/98439 [PoW]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Brian Thompson RAF 1332033 [PoW]
Sources:
SGLO database - https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/ahome/lossregister/results?sglo=T2260
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
http://lostaircraft.com/database.php?lang=en&mode=viewentry&e=391#
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 20-Jan-2015 09:30 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 05-May-2018 07:44 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Nov-2018 20:51 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 20-Jun-2022 00:45 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 04-May-2023 13:52 | TigerTimon | Updated [[Location]] |
| 03-May-2024 07:05 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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