ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 163059
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| Date: | Friday 17 September 1943 |
| Time: | 04:45 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 138 (Special Duties) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | BB309 |
| MSN: | NF-T |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Slaglille Mark -
 Denmark
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Tempsford, Bedfordshire |
Shot down after returning from a dropping mission in Poland. The attacker was night fighter pilot Leutnant Richard Burdyna of the 11./NJG 3, flying Ju 88 C-6 'D5+CW' from Grove airfield. The Luftwaffe pilot was killed when his Junkers crashed due to return fire at Slaglille in Bjernede forest.
In the crash, the Halifax hit a house and inside the house three adults and 2 children died in the fire.
From the crew five did not survive the crash.
Sgt Wladyslaw Barzdo PAF
Pilot F/Lt Wizenty Wasilewski PAF
Wop F/S Julian Michalski PAF
Air Gnr.Sgt Wladyslaw Patlewicz PAF
Flt. Engr.Sgt Eugeniusz Kasprzak PAF
R.I.P.
Takeoff time: 18:29
Sources:
http://www.flensted.eu.com/19430096.shtml
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BB309
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 29 October 1942 | W7773 | 138 (Special Duties) Sqn RAF | 10 | Between Helleren and Refsland in Southern Norway |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Jan-2014 21:17 | gerard57 | Added |
| 03-Jun-2015 14:36 | Wilbur | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 15-Sep-2018 13:13 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Sep-2018 13:21 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 15-Sep-2018 13:21 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 28-Oct-2018 17:45 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 30-Jun-2023 14:01 | Nepa | Updated [[Operator, Operator]] |
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