ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 169834
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| Date: | Monday 20 April 1942 |
| Time: | 23:58 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 138 (Special Duties) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | V9976 |
| MSN: | NF- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Kreuth South Bavaria, Germany -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Tempsford, Gibraltar Farm |
The plane crashed into the Blue Mountains under mysterious circumstances.
F/O Ryszard Zygmuntowicz, PAF - Pilot - killed
W/C Walter Ronald (Wally) Farley, DFC, RAF -
2nd Pilot - killed
F/O James Ansford Pulton RAFVR (161 Sqdn)
- Gunner - killed
Sgt Czeslaw Madracki PAF - Navigator (Flt
Engineer?) - killed
F/Sgt Bronislaw Karbowski PAF - Rear Gunner -
killed
F/Lt Antoni Henryk Voellnagel PAF - Flight
Engineer (Navigator?) - killed
Sgt Leon Wilmanski PAF - Air Bomber (W/Op?)
- killed
Sgt Mieczyslav Wojciechowski PAF - Wireless
Op (Gunner?) - killed
Peter Starisky (Peter Schuulmburg) NKVD agent - killed
Sevolod (Visevolod?) Troussevitch (John Traun) NKVD agent - killed
Aircrew all initially buried at Kreuth and then re-interred in collective grave at Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany
Franz Löschl - passenger - killed
Lorenz Mraz - passenger - killed
Agents on board flight were Franz Löschl, underground cover name Donner Franz; and Lorenz Mraz, underground cover names Moritz Lorenz and Hofstädter Lorenz.. These were Austrian Marxists who were veterans of the Spanish Civil War and agents of Stalin
Agents were members of the OeFF(Oesterreichischen Freiheitsfront) in Moscow: Lorenz MRAZ (as Ing Rudolf HOFSTAEDTLER) and Franz LOESCHEL (as Maschinentechniker Franz MAYER). Both agents were also killed and buried with the crew
Sources:
http://www.tempsford.20m.com/v9976.html
Aircraft lost on Allied Force’s Special Duty Operations
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Sep-2014 17:32 | gerard57 | Added |
| 19-Oct-2014 07:10 | Repac | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 10-Dec-2017 17:06 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Oct-2018 17:27 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
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