Date:	Wednesday 29 July 1942
Time:	01:30
Type:	Short Stirling Mk I
Owner/operator:	218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF
Registration:	W7464
MSN:	HA-Z
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea 20 km NW of Terschelling, Friesland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 23:43 hrs for an operation to Hamburg in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Paul Gildner of the 5./NJG 2, who had taken off from Leeuwarden airfield.

All seven are missing in action and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W7464
Google Maps
https://218squadron.wordpress.com/roll-of-honour/
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=W7464
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1799956
218 Sqn war records from The National Archives UK
Personnel file of Sergeant Douglas Bernard Henshaw (RCAF) from Ancestry.ca (Archives Canada)

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

5 May 1943

BF505

218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF

5

near Murmerwoude, S of Dokkum, Friesland

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-May-2020 12:40	TigerTimon	Added
19-Mar-2021 20:54	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]
14-Jun-2022 23:52	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
29-Oct-2023 19:39	tachel	Updated [[Location]]