ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51927
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Date: | Thursday 13 May 1943 |
Time: | 02:20 |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | DT801 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Buurse, behind house F16, Overijssel -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Graveley |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant August Geiger of the 7./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield.
Target: Duisburg
Call Sign: TL-A
Takeoff time: 00:23
Crew:
Pilot F/Lt. J. Sale DSO DFC J/9929 RCAF Survived evader, returned
Flight engineer Sgt. C.W. Rowley 1160639 RAF Survived POW
Navigator F/O. G.E Heard 126034 RAF Survived POW
Bomb aimer F/Lt. R.C. Sawyer 125574 RAF Haaksbergen 4 2 8
Wireless op Sgt. S.A. Moores 798716 RAF Survived POW
Air gunner Sgt. D.J. Richards 1418379 RAF Haaksbergen 4 2 9
Air gunner Sgt. R.O. Elford R/103805 RCAF Survived POW
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2280&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
06-Feb-2009 11:18 |
dekempe |
Updated |
06-Feb-2009 11:19 |
harro |
Updated |
10-May-2018 10:18 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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