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Date: | Friday 10 April 1942 |
Time: | 23:43 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 76 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R9484 |
MSN: | MP-G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Oer-Erkenschwick, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St. George, Durham |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Halifax II R9484 "MP-G" of 76 Squadron, RAF. Bomb raid to Essen, The crew left RAF Middleton St George at 21:02 hours for a bombing operation to Essen in Nordrhein-Westfalen. While overflying Germany, the aircraft was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in a field at Oer-Erkenschwick, 3 miles North East of Recklinghausen, Nord-Rhine-Westphalia, approximately 12 miles north west of Dortmund, Germany. All seven crew members (six RAF, one RAAF) were killed. Seven civilians on the ground were also killed, probably by bombs missing their intended target. All the crew were killed and they are buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Locality Kleve, Nordheim-Westfalen, Germany. The cemetery is 5km south west of Kleve.
Crew:
Pilot: 1255089 Flt Sgt Hewart Joseph Lambeth - Reichswald War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 8-11.
Pilot: 1021801 Sgt Richard Ktchen - Reichswald War Cemetery 19. A. 12.
Flight Engineer: 567548 Sgt William Dennis Robert George - Reichswald War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 8-11.
Observer: 115777 Pilot Officer John Raymond Connolly - Reichswald War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 8-11.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1168176 Sgt Murray Charles Fred Swain - Reichswald War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 8-11.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1172586 Sgt Sidney Frank Parker - Reichswald War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 8-11.
Air Gunner: 400647 Sgt Charles Noel Reynolds RAAF - Reichswald War Cemetery Coll. Grave. 19. A. 8-11.
UK National Archives has a German record card indicating the recovery of six individuals from this aircraft. See source 7.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft Aircraft R1000 - R9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1980 page 58)
2. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
3.
http://aircrewremembered.com/lambeth-hewart.html 4.
https://www.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RC09125_004--1-.pdf 5.
https://www.backtonormandy.org/component/mtree/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis- lost/halifax/R94841942-04-11.html
CWGC
6. Google Maps
7.
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C18027748
History of this aircraft
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W1065 |
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Gennevilliers - Hauts-de-Seine département |
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w/o |
26 June 1942 |
W7747 |
76 Sqn RAF |
7 |
North Sea |
|
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12 August 1943 |
DK240 |
76 Sqn RAF |
5 |
near Bernay, Eure |
|
w/o |
26 November 1943 |
LK903 |
76 Sqn RAF |
1 |
near Erbach, Eltville am Rhein, Hessen |
|
w/o |
22 January 1944 |
LL185 |
76 Sqn RAF |
7 |
North Sea W of Walcheren, Zeeland |
|
w/o |
15 March 1944 |
LW657 |
76 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Heslach, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg |
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w/o |
23 June 1944 |
LW620 |
76 Sqn RAF |
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10 miles WSW of Beverley, Yorks |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
09-Mar-2008 08:33 |
Bleiente |
Added |
06-Sep-2011 01:41 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-Sep-2011 02:28 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
13-Aug-2012 01:01 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
13-Aug-2012 01:01 |
Nepa |
Updated [Source] |
21-Sep-2013 03:05 |
JINX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative] |
08-Jan-2016 15:01 |
JIXN |
Updated [Operator] |
06-Mar-2017 00:45 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-Mar-2017 00:48 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
30-Nov-2017 21:34 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
12-Nov-2018 08:48 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
17-Apr-2020 18:17 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Date, Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
25-Sep-2023 15:35 |
Richard |
Updated [[Date, Time, Location, Source, Narrative]] |