ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 266985
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| Date: | Saturday 6 May 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bristol Beaufighter TF Mk X |
| Owner/operator: | 211 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LZ479 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Missing. -
 Bangladesh
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Bhatpara, India |
Beaufighter LZ479/"O" and Beaufighters ‘M’& ‘V’ takeoff at 06:22hrs for operations 6 May 1944.
Beauf "O" Missing. ‘M’ & ‘V’ returned OK
Between 08:20 and 08:59hrs, F/Sgt Nash as able to transmit several HF radio messages but these were received only faintly and with some difficulty by receiving stations at Feni and Chittagong, such that the resulting fixes were in conflict. The last call was very faint at 08:59hrs.
The next afternoon Search party 3 a/craft, Cuddy, O’Mara and Haakenson and their navigators carried out a parallel search for three hours but found nothing. It later transpired that the Beaufighter had crashed, fatally, inside the British forward lines amongst hills apparently through engine trouble. 14th Army patrols found the remains of the bodies of pilot F/Sgt Bell and his navigator F/Sgt Nash about May 12th Friday. The bodies recovered, buried together in a joint grave in the Chittagong War Cemetery. 06/05/1944
Crew:
W/O (1369740) Peter Lindsay BELL (Pilot) RAFVR - killed
F/Sgt (1497953) Albert Edward NASH (Nav.) RAFVR - killed
Sources:
http://www.211squadron.org/bristol_beaufighter.html
Beaufighter production list
ORB 211 Sqdn RAF
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Aug-2021 10:59 | Nepa | Added [Operator] |
| 23-Jan-2022 15:27 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator] |
| 11-Jan-2024 19:03 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
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