ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 209273
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Date: | Thursday 15 April 1943 |
Time: | 01:56 |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 149 (East India) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BF500 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Belval, 6 km WNW of Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes 08 -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Lakenheath |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Rudolf Altendorf of the 2./NJG 4, flying Bf 110 3C+EK from Florennes airfield, Belgium.
Target: Stuttgart
Call Sign: OJ-M
Takeoff time: 21:57
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Dominic Bernard White RCAF J/16896 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Albert John White RAFVR 1445443 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Theodore Willson Foran RCAF R/121566 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Lloyd George Vallance RCAF J/10684 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Warrant Officer Class II Russell Roberts Stover RCAF R/91336 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Edward Farnen RAFVR 985405 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Kenneth Sidney Albert Payne RAFVR 1339292 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=4186 Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-Apr-2018 16:24 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
18-Oct-2018 13:54 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
30-Jun-2022 03:22 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
30-Jun-2022 04:14 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
14-Apr-2024 07:02 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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