ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50452
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| Date: | Thursday 25 May 1944 |
| Time: | 01:25 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 158 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LW653 |
| MSN: | NP-T |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Dongen-Tilburg, Noord Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Lissett, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Takeoff at 22:59 hrs for a bombing operation against Aachen in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the Stab IV./NJG 1, who had taken off from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield (Belgium) at 23:57 hrs, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+DF. This was credited as Schnauffer's 72nd victory.
There were no survivors amongst the crew. All seven rest in the Dongen cemetery:
Pilot / P/O. J.S.M. Clarke 177011 RAF / grave 7
Flight Engineer / Sgt. R.D. Gould 1819416 RAF / grave 1
Navigator / F/Sgt. T.A. Colman 1397422 RAF / grave 5
Bomb Aimer / F/O. J.W. Oakley 152203 RAF / grave 6
Wireless Operator / Sgt. E. Oldroyd 1516167 RAF / grave 3
Mid Upper Gunner / Sgt. W.A. Hughes 1893220 RAF / grave 2
Rear Gunner / Sgt. R.C. Carvell 1880342 RAF / grave 4
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3717&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Google Maps
Theo Boiten: Nachtjagd 1944 vol 3, p. 025.
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 14 July 1942 | W7753 | 158 Sqn RAF | 8 | Gelsenkirchen-Resse, Nordrhein-Westfalen |  |
w/o |
| 1 August 1942 | W1190 | 158 Sqn RAF | 0 | Scheldt river mouth, Zeeland | |
w/o |
| 24 March 1944 | LW718 | 158 Sqn RAF | 7 | Horsey Gap, Norfolk, England |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 01-Oct-2020 16:42 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-May-2023 20:24 | redsix | Updated [[Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]] |
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