ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 232135
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Date: | Wednesday 15 March 1944 |
Time: | 22:45 approx |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | LW690 |
MSN: | AL-T |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Les Granges Guénin, Saint-Barthélemy, Haute-Saône (70) -
Saint Barthélemy
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:16 hrs for an operation to Stuttgart in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Kurt Matzak of the 12./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Harry Lyle Heimbecker RCAF J/9353 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant W E Morton RCAF [Evaded]
Navigator : Warrant Officer Class II J A S MacDonald RCAF [Evaded]
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Joseph Hector Gaeten Senecal RCAF J/85536 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant J S Martin RAF [Evaded]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Edward Page Wainwright RAF 943031 [PoW]
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer John Bruce Ewen RCAF J/88360 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=986 Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
18 November 1943 |
JD275 |
429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
3 |
claim location: south of Treis-Karden, Rheinland-Pfalz |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
15-Jan-2020 17:54 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
15-Mar-2024 08:01 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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