ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50036
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| Date: | Tuesday 19 September 1944 |
| Time: | 23:19 |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk XX |
| Owner/operator: | 627 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | KB267 |
| MSN: | AZ-E |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire |
Mosquito KB267/E: Took off at 19:51 hrs for the Mönchengladbach/Rheydt raid. 19/09/1944
The Mossie was hit by machine gun fire from the mid-upper gunner of 61 Sqdn Lancaster LM729 QR-V, who claimed a ‘Ju 88’ destroyed at exactly the place and time where the twin-engined aircraft crashed and burned at Steenbergen at 23:19 hrs.
Crew:
W/Cdr (39438) Guy Penrose GIBSON VC DSO & bar DFC & bar (pilot) RAF - killed (Commission Gazetted : Sunday 31 January, 1937)
S/Ldr (156612) James Brown WARWICK DFC (nav.) RAFVR - killed (NCO:1393272 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 12 October, 1943)
A Daily Telegraph newspaper report of 10/10/11 quotes the confession of Bernard McCormack, a 61 Sqdn Lancaster air gunner who made a tape recording before his death, confessing that he had shot down the Mosquito, believing it to be a Ju88 night fighter. No Ju88s appear to have been lost that night.
Sources:
1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.ORB 627 Sqdn RAF
3.http://www.omroepbrabant.nl/
4.CWGC
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 1 February 1944 | DZ551 | 627 Sqn RAF | 2 | north-west of Pattensen, Niedersachsen. |  |
w/o |
| 2 May 1944 | DZ547 | 627 Sqn RAF | 0 | RAF stn Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, England |  |
min |
| 20 February 1945 | KB401 | 627 Sqn RAF | 2 | Böhlen, south of Leipzig, Saxony. | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 02-Dec-2009 02:10 | NePa | Updated |
| 30-May-2010 03:21 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 30-May-2010 03:23 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 16-Jan-2011 13:38 | ThW | Updated [Cn] |
| 01-May-2012 06:13 | Nepa | Updated [Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 24-Nov-2013 08:27 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Jun-2014 20:37 | Nepa | Updated [Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 29-Aug-2015 13:24 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Jan-2019 10:47 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator] |
| 10-Sep-2019 06:05 | TigerTimon | Updated [Other fatalities, Location] |
| 27-Sep-2019 17:27 | Nepa | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Operator] |
| 09-Mar-2021 11:57 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Mar-2021 11:34 | Froome | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 25-Oct-2021 18:46 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 21-Jun-2022 00:35 | Anon. | Updated [Location, Narrative] |
| 23-Jun-2022 20:18 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator] |
| 31-Jul-2022 15:39 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 03-Aug-2022 19:41 | harro | Updated [Narrative] |
| 04-Aug-2022 17:11 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 19-Sep-2023 07:06 | Rob Davis | Updated [[Source, Narrative, Operator]] |
| 26-Oct-2023 09:35 | Nepa | Updated [[[Source, Narrative, Operator]]] |
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