ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 265278
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| Date: | Monday 4 October 1943 |
| Time: | 22:36 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | JD463 |
| MSN: | VR-D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Cour-sur-Heure, Ham-sur-Heure-Nalinnes, Hainaut -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St George, County Durham |
Takeoff at 17:37 hrs for an operation against Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the crew of Leutnant Josef Nabrich & Feldwebel Fritz Habicht of the 3./NJG 1, who were flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.
The plane was fatally hit and only one pilot was able to jump: Canadian bomb aimer Sergeant Wilfried Renner. He evaded capture and was liberated 3 September 1944 by American forces.
Sgt Arthur Fare, the 28-year-old pilot; Sgt George Chapman, navigator (aged 23); Sgt William Boyce, radio operator (aged 22); Sgt George Beach, rear turret gunner (aged 23); Sgt Cyril Winterbottom, flight engineer (aged 20) and F/Sgt Robert Paddison, the Canadian tail gunner (aged 25), were buried at Gosselies Communal Cemetery.
Sources:
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/halifax-te-cour-sur-heure
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
Google Maps
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JD463&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 January 1944 | JD420 | 419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Neuenfelde, Elsfleth, Niedersachsen |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Jul-2021 19:22 | TigerTimon | Added |
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