ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 308937
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| Date: | Saturday 7 November 1942 |
| Time: | Approx 15h00 |
| Type: |  Douglas DB-7B Boston Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 107 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | Z2157 |
| MSN: | OM- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Lietard Farm near Weelgem (West Vlaanderen), 6 km NE of Menin -
 Belgium
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Great Massingham |
9 x Bostons took off at 14h00 to bomb the Coutrai marshalling yards. Ingress to and egress from target area were at low level. This aircraft was seen with the port engine on fire, believed hit by flak or to have struck high tension wires. Aircraft observed by wingman to crash at high speed and explode on impact. All aboard were killed.
Pilot: 39482 Squadron Leader Philip Rex Barr DFC (RAF)
Nav/Bomb Aimer: 48726 Flying Officer Walter Barfod DFC (RAF)
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: 121213 Pilot Officer Thomas Trotter (RAFVR)
Air Gunner: R/79163 Warrant Officer Class II Neil Seymour Hunter Phillips (RCAF)
Sources:
107 Sqn (RAF) wartime records from The National Archives
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2776085
Personnel file from WO2 Phillips RCAF
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=Z2157
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=1942-11-07&qand=107sqn&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
https://www.belgians-remember-them.eu/crew-wvl-weve1.php
https://www.hangarflying.eu/erfgoedsites/monument-voor-bemanning-boston-iii-z2157/
https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMCQ03_Monument_to_a_crew_of_RAF_107th_SQN_Wevelgem_Belgium
https://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=1dc1228d-d562-4ac2-a946-8f5ab0999f09
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 19 February 1942 | W8319 | 107 Sqn RAF | 3 | south-east of Flitcham Abbey, Norfolk, England |  |
w/o |
| 17 April 1942 | Z2255 | 107 Sqn RAF | 3 | English Channel near Cherbourg Harbour. |  |
w/o |
| 25 April 1942 | AL286 | 107 Sqn RAF | 2 | English Channel 3 miles off Cherbourg, department of Manche, Normandy. | |
w/o |
| 27 April 1942 | Z2194 | 107 Sqn RAF | 0 | near Bourbourg, the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region. | |
w/o |
| 10 June 1942 | AL284 | 107 Sqn RAF | 3 | Missing - North Sea. |  |
w/o |
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