ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 236254
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| Date: | Saturday 29 August 1942 |
| Time: | 01:16 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 78 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | W7809 |
| MSN: | EY-? |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Abstract, Overijse, Flemish Brabant -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St George, County Durham |
Takeoff at 19:41 hrs local time for an operation to Nürnberg in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Leutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer & Unteroffizier Fritz Rumpelhardt of the Stab II./NJG 1, who were flying Bf 110 E-2 G9+DC from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield.
W7809 of 78 Squadron crashed southeast of Brussels, at Overijse-Tombeek. The seven casualties still rest in the cemetery there, they were Sgt John A.B. Marshall RAAF (pilot, 24 y.), Sgt George E. Dunn (flight engineer, 37 y.), W/O Terence M. Manning (observer, 22 y.), Sgt Joseph P. Martin (observer, 34 y.) , Sgt Terris H. Miller RCAF (wireless operator, 23 y.), Sgt John G. Mellor (air gunner, 20 y.) and Sgt Samual Ross RCAF (tail gunner, 26 y.).
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/halifax-bij-tombeek
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W7809
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History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 2 June 1942 | W7698 | 78 Sqn RAF | 3 | near Genneper Weg 2, Reichswald at Kranenburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen |  |
w/o |
| 26 June 1942 | W1067 | 78 Sqn RAF | 3 | IJsselmeer SSW of Hindeloopen, Friesland |  |
w/o |
| 27 July 1942 | W1184 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea |  |
mis |
| 6 August 1942 | W1180 | 78 Sqn RAF | 3 | Sint Odiliënberg - Posterholt; Limburg | |
w/o |
| 12 August 1942 | W1115 | 78 Sqn RAF | 2 | Igstadt, Wiesbaden, Hessen | |
w/o |
| 12 August 1942 | W1061 | 78 Sqn RAF | 2 | Wommelgem, Antwerp | |
w/o |
| 10 September 1942 | DT491 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | near Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 24 September 1942 | R9447 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea N of Terschelling, Friesland | |
mis |
| 26 September 1942 | W7822 | 78 Sqn RAF | 8 | Wadden Sea 1.5 km E of Hörnum, Schleswig-Holstein | |
w/o |
| 1 October 1942 | W1036 | 78 Sqn RAF | 4 | Sehestedt, Schleswig-Holstein | |
w/o |
| 2 October 1942 | W1275 | 78 Sqn RAF | 6 | north of Herongen, Straelen, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 25 June 1943 | JB962 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | 1 km northwest of Zons, Dormagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 28 May 1944 | LW519 | 78 Sqn RAF | 1 | RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, England |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-May-2020 14:18 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 07-Nov-2022 01:44 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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