Accident Hawker Typhoon Mk IB RB325,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50613
 
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Date:Tuesday 23 January 1945
Time:15:00
Type:Silhouette image of generic typh model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Hawker Typhoon Mk IB
Owner/operator:440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF
Registration: RB325
MSN: I8-X
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Dremmen, Heinsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:B.78 Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Aircraft set afire by flak during dive into target. No chute observed, perished in crash.
Pilot was J/13485 F/L Harold Byers (RCAF). He was laid to rest at Margraten cemetery in Limburg, the Netherlands. Later, he was re-interred into the Nederweert cemetery; grave 4 A 8.

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T5158A&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Veterans Affairs Canada http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2961450
440 Squadron (RCAF) DND records
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=J%2F13485

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
24 December 1944 MN665 440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF 1 16 km SE of Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant w/o
21 January 1945 PD601 440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF 1 Montfort, Limburg w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
15-Jul-2018 19:02 tachel Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Source, Narrative]
21-Jan-2020 20:34 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
05-Jan-2021 17:10 tachel Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative]

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