ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50466
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Date: | Thursday 25 May 1944 |
Time: | 10:08 LT |
Type: | Lockheed P-38J-15-LO Lightning |
Owner/operator: | 20th FGp /55th FSqn USAAF |
Registration: | 42-104395 |
MSN: | KI-T |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea off Vlissingen, Zeeland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft was probably hit by Marine Flak and crashed. The pilot, 2nd Lt. P.A. Boele, is missing in action and commemorated at the Cambridge Walls of the Missing.
The Lightning was flying fighter escort for the USAAF operation against marshalling yards at Brussels-Schaarbeek, Belgium.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3726&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/2155 http://www.americanairmuseum.com/mission/78 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
23-May-2019 12:17 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
28-Mar-2020 09:40 |
Xindel XL |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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