ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51679
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| Date: | Saturday 26 June 1943 |
| Time: | 02:40 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | JB843 |
| MSN: | DY-F |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Anna Paulownaweg, 't Zand, Noord-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Pocklington, Yorkshire |
Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Jabs of the 11./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from probably Bergen airfield.
Target: Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Takeoff time: 23:34 hrs
Crew:
Pilot Sgt. K. Gore 1431059 RAF killed
Flt/Eng Sgt. T.M. Sugden 1119079 RAF- killed
Navigator Sgt. J.H. Wright 1388972 RAF killed
Bomb aimer Sgt. T.E. Judd 1233573 RAF killed
Wo ag Sgt. F.H. Mitchell 1079029 RAF killed
Air gunner Sgt. D.A.H. Gough 1575135 RAF killed
Air gunner Sgt. J.B. Foskett 1337461 RAF killed
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2591&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 26 June 1942 | R9446 | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF | 6 | sea off Niedersachsen |  |
mis |
| 24 September 1942 | W1055 | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF | 7 | Flensburger Förde near the U-Boot wharf, Schleswig-Holstein | |
w/o |
| 9 November 1942 | W7864 | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF | 8 | North Sea 35 km N of Ameland, Friesland | |
w/o |
| 20 January 1944 | LW337 | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF | 4 | Hirschgarten Friedrichshagen, Berlin | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 03-Dec-2018 15:57 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Dec-2018 16:11 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
| 21-Nov-2023 20:50 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Operator, Narrative, Operator] |
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