Accident Handley Page Halifax Mk III NR114,
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Date:Wednesday 1 November 1944
Time:20:32-46
Type:Silhouette image of generic hlfx model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Handley Page Halifax Mk III
Owner/operator:434 (Bluenose) Sqn RCAF
Registration: NR114
MSN: WL-U
Fatalities:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Hinsbeck, Nettetal, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Croft, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Took off at 17:07 hrs for an operation against Oberhausen in NRW.

Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by a twin-engined night fighter.
The two surviving crew members were taken prisoner of war.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part five
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=NR114&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
Google Maps

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
28 April 1944 LL243 434 (Bluenose) Sqn RCAF 4 Cartilserveldweg road, Eys, Limburg w/o

Revision history:

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03-Sep-2021 17:25 TigerTimon Added

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