ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 236314
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Date: | Wednesday 2 September 1942 |
Time: | 04:13 LT |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N3714 |
MSN: | HA-Q |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Sterrebeek, Zaventem, Flemish Brabant -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Downham Market, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:46 hrs local time for an operation to Saarbrücken in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Ehle & Oberfeldwebel Leidenbach of the Stab II./NJG 1, who were flying Lichtenstein-equipped Bf 110 F-4 G9+BC from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield.
Those who did not survive rest in the Nossegem communal cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=N3714 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
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21 June 1942 |
W7530 |
218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
3 |
NW of Wognum, Noord-Holland |
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w/o |
20 August 1942 |
BF338 |
218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
6 |
Hoffnungsthal, Goosefeld, Schleswig-Holstein |
|
w/o |
2 October 1942 |
N3763 |
218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
7 |
Sankt Hubertus, Groß Grönau, Schleswig-Holstein |
|
w/o |
31 August 1943 |
EE903 |
218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
7 |
6 km south of Mönchengladbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-May-2020 18:09 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
19-Mar-2021 20:58 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
07-Nov-2022 01:43 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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