Date:	Friday 29 December 1944
Time:	13:30
Type:	Hawker Typhoon Mk IB
Owner/operator:	440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	RB201
MSN:	I8-L
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Gronau, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	B.78 Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Destination airport:

Narrative:
While engaged in an armed recce operation, hit by Flak.

The pilot, RCAF F/Lt. Donald Edward Jenvey (DFC, MID), belly-landed the aircraft safely behind enemy lines in Germany. he made his way into the Netherlands and was hidden by locals but was later betrayed and shot while escaping on the 25th of March 1945. His body rests at Enschede cemetery in the Netherlands; grave 191.

- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft PA100 - RZ999, published 1992
440 SQN archives
Veterans Affairs Canada
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2820321
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4872A&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

16 July 1944	MN703	440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF	1	B-9 Lantheuil		w/o
24 February 1945	PD592	440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF	0	Borkeld near Holten, Overijssel		w/o

http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=11309 https://www.thetyphoonproject.org/440/Donald%20Edward-Jenvey.html http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=440+sqd+rcaf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Apr-2013 11:11	Uli Elch	Added
14-Apr-2013 11:24	Uli Elch	Updated [Date, Registration, Operator, Location]
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01-Jun-2013 08:55	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
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17-Jan-2021 22:16	tachel	Updated [Time, Embed code, Narrative]