ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49946
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| Date: | Saturday 23 September 1944 |
| Time: | 23:11 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 78 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | MZ763 |
| MSN: | EY-S |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Moesel, Weert, Limburg -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Breighton, in Yorkshire, England |
Take off at 19:02 hrs for a bombing operation against Neuss, Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Modrow & Feldwebel Schneider of the 1./NJG 1, who were flying Heinkel He 219 A-2 G9+HH from Münster-Handorf airfield in Germany.
Four crew members were able to bail out and survived.
The three remaining crew members perished:
Sgt Nutbrown was initially buried in Weert Cemetery
Reinterred 21 August 1946
Flt Sgt Barnes was part of Trupp 40. He arrived at Bankau on 20 October 1944
(The Long Road Oliver Clutton-Brock)
Sgt Nutbrown’s parachute failed to open resulting in his death.
Crew
Pilot: 161665 Fg Off John Stewart Richardson Swanson - Weert (Molenpoort) Roman Catholic Cemetery Grave 1
Flight Engineer: 1594041 Sgt Robert Lawrence Nutbrown - Nederweert War Cemetery Plot II Row D Grave 4
Navigator: 1579507 Flt Sgt Albert Tom Barnes PoW/Stalag Luft 7 Bankau near Kreulberg Upper Silesia/PoW Number 1015
Bomb Aimer: 1424879 Sgt P F Robert - Evaded (See link above)
Wireless Operator: 2208436 Sgt Alistair Campbell - Weert (Molenpoort) Roman Catholic Cemetery Grave 3
Air Gunner: 553903 Sgt J S Bennett - Evaded (See link above)
Air Gunner: 159102 Fg Off William Thomas Grew - Weert (Molenpoort) Roman Catholic Cemetery Grave 2
Sources:
http://www.ouralliedheroes.nl/bennett.php
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4285&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
Google Maps
http://www.ouralliedheroes.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14&Itemid=18&lang=en
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 26 June 1943 | JB928 | 78 Sqn RAF | 1 | along the Bergerweg road, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 21-Oct-2013 17:27 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Mar-2021 16:28 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Mar-2021 16:30 | TigerTimon | Updated [Total fatalities] |
| 17-Jan-2022 20:12 | Anon. | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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