ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 309347
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| Date: | Saturday 13 March 1943 |
| Time: | 15:00 |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX |
| Owner/operator: | 403 (Wolf) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | BS196 |
| MSN: | KH- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Near Grandvilliers, Oise -
 France
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Kenley |
RAMROD 43. Take off was at 14h00. Mission was for 402 and 403 RCAF Squadrons to escort sixty Flying Fortresses on a bombing raid to the marshalling yards at Amiens. Bombers were late, strung out over 10-15 miles and did not fly a direct route to target aggravating the already low fuel state of the escorting Spitfires. B-17 formations split onto different targets making it extremely difficult for the fighter wing to keep contact with all of them. Fw190s sporadically attacked with minor successes and some losses. This aircraft was last seen going down in flames, it is presumed it was shot down by one of the Fw190s.
Pilot was : R/102159 Warrant Officer Class II Ronald Dunbar (RCAF) KIA
Sources:
403 Sqn (RCAF) wartime records from RCAF/Archives Canada microfilms
WO2 Dunbar's personnel record from RCAF archives on Ancestry.ca
https://aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=102159&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2234510
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=BS196
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=bs196&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 18 November 1943 | MH361 | 403 (Wolf) Sqn RCAF | 1 | English Channel 15 miles west of Boulogne | |
mis |
| 8 March 1944 | MJ356 | 403 (Wolf) Sqn RCAF | 0 | 3 kilometres southwest of Champigny-la-Futelaye | |
w/o |
| 22 February 1945 | SM338 | 403 (Wolf) Sqn RCAF | 0 | southwest of Enschede, Overijssel |  |
w/o |
| 19 March 1945 | SM208 | 403 (Wolf) Sqn RCAF | 1 | near Huis Landfort, Landfortseweg, Megchelen, Gelderland | |
w/o |
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