ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50648
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Date: | Saturday 20 January 1945 |
Time: | 10:30 LT |
Type: | Hawker Typhoon Mk IB |
Owner/operator: | 257 (Burma) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | MN696 |
MSN: | FM-R |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Wieldrecht, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | B.70 Antwerp/Deurne, Belgium |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 09:50 hrs for an armed recce operation to Leiden.
The aircraft crashed due to icing.
W/O. K.E. Button did not survive and rests in Dordrecht; grave A 6.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T5138&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
18-Jan-2020 19:56 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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