ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 214313
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| Date: | Tuesday 17 August 1943 |
| Time: | 00:43 |
| Type: |  Short Stirling Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | EH884 |
| MSN: | HA-X |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | municipality Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Ain -
 France
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Downham Market |
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hans Kulow of the 9./NJG 4, flying a Bf 110 G-4 or Do 217N from Juvincourt airfield.
Takeoff time: 20:19
Crew:
Pilot: R/84141 WO Stanley Frank Chudzik (RCAF) - Killed
Navigator: 1397946 Sgt James L Paterson (RAFVR) - Evaded capture
Bomb AImer: 1390419 Sgt Charles Edward Taylor (RAFVR) - Killed
Flight Engineer: 1039634 Sgt Donald Deans (RAFVR) - Killed
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1312985 Sgt Donald Peter Jack Rawlings (RAFVR) - Killed
Air Gunner: 1301762 Sgt James Dennis Bates (RAFVR) - Killed
Air Gunner: R/177950 Sgt Walter Lindsay McKinnon (RCAF) - PoW
Sources:
218 Squadron war records from The National Archives UK
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=EH884
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=EH884
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2718642
Personnel file of the pilot WO Chudzik from Ancestry.ca (Archives Canada)
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 29 July 1942 | N6129 | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea west of the Rømø (Denmark) & Sylt (Germany) islands |  |
w/o |
| 26 February 1943 | BF450 | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF | 7 | Rheinau, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg | |
w/o |
| 24 August 1943 | EH986 | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF | 5 | Berlin, Templehof airport | |
w/o |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Aug-2018 10:49 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 04-Oct-2018 13:43 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator] |
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