ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 235878
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Date: | Monday 27 July 1942 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W7760 |
MSN: | TL-B |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea - lost at 5447N 0600E -
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:01 hrs for an operation to Hamburg in Germany & failed to return.
Possibly, it was damaged by a night fighter of the 4./NJG 2 from Wittmund airfield.
All seven are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sources:
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W7760 Google Maps
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
5 October 1942 |
W1047 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
7 |
Marquillies, département du Nord |
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w/o |
Mid-air collision |
4 July 1943 |
HR673 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
7 |
Riemst, Limburg |
|
w/o |
21 January 1944 |
HX324 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
4 |
area just to the west of Rehbeck, near Lüchow, Niedersachsen |
|
w/o |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-May-2020 14:31 |
TigerTimon |
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