ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50459
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| Date: | Thursday 25 May 1944 |
| Time: | 01:22 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 76 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | MZ622 |
| MSN: | MP-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 105 km W or Goirle, Noord Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor |
Took off at 22:38 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 71st victory.
Crashed at Goirle, 4 km S of Tilburg. Those who died, and whose average age of 21, are buried in Goirle Roman Catholic Cemetery. Their graves are near two 424 Squadron airmen killed in the April and fourteen other service personnel who died twixt October 1944 and April 1945:
Flt Sgt P S Wade RAAF (KIA)
Sgt R E D Robinson (KIA)
Sgt K H Allaker (KIA)
Sgt S Patterson (KIA)
Flt Sgt M H Graydon RAAF (KIA)
Sgt R J Head (POW)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=&date=&location=&pn=MZ622&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 240.
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
| 13 August 1941 | L9530 | 76 Sqn RAF | 2 | Ostmoor at Buxtehude, Niedersachsen |  |
w/o |
| 13 April 1942 | R9452 | 76 Sqn RAF | 0 | Humanby, 2 miles SSW of Filey, Yorkshire, England |  |
unk |
| 20 May 1942 | W7660 | 76 Sqn RAF | 0 | near Marche-en-Famenne, Luxembourg |  |
w/o |
| 25 April 1944 | LK789 | 76 Sqn RAF | 6 | opposite Colony Farm near Welney, Norfolk, England | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 14-Jun-2016 19:58 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 12-Nov-2018 08:57 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 01-Oct-2020 16:31 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-May-2023 20:12 | redsix | Updated [[Location, Source, Narrative]] |
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