ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50454
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| Date: | Thursday 25 May 1944 |
| Time: | 01:30 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | LW137 |
| MSN: | AL-K |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 15 km. N of Breda, Noord Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire |
Takeoff at 22:53 hrs for a bombing operation against railway facilities at Aachen, Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Karl-Heinz Scherfling of the 12./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Belgium. This was credited as Scherfling's 29th victory.
Three occupants bailed out of the plane safely, four others died in the crash. They are buried at Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Gelderland:
F/L R T Rawlinson DFC 168670 RAF VR (Pilot) KIA
P/O G L Caunt 174007 RAF VR (Nav) POW
WO2 A J Murphy J86671 RCAF (B/A) KIA
P/O A Bates 175422 RAF VR (F/Eng) KIA
P/O W J Bush 173890 RAF VR (WOp/AG) POW
P/O A C Shierlaw J19859 RCAF (A/G) POW
P/O J R H Cochrane J86710 RCAF (A/G) KIA
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3719&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
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Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 29 January 1944 | LK746 | 429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF | 5 | trees near Teltow, Brandenburg |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 24-Nov-2016 12:30 | gerard57 | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Oct-2020 16:49 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-May-2023 20:29 | redsix | Updated [[Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]] |
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