ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52301
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| Date: | Tuesday 22 June 1943 |
| Time: | 02:09 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 77 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | JD205 |
| MSN: | KN-Y |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Den Eikenhorst Estate, Boxtel, Nootd-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Elvington, UK |
Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Hans-Dieter Frank of the 2./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Gilze-Rijen airfield. Two crew members, W/O Rolph Henry King adn F/Sgt Alfred Ross Currie, died in the crash. They are buried at the Canadian war Cemetery in Groesbeek, the Netherlands. Five crew members survived and three of them were taken prisoner. The other two escaped imprisonment with the help of the Dutch population.
Takeoff time: 23:50
Crew:
Pilot Sgt. J. Gardner 1452977 RAF Survived POW
Flight engineer Sgt. S.H.A. Nicholson 1213238 RAF Survived POW
Navigator Sgt. F.G. Hawthorne 1548758 RAF Survived evader, POW
Bomb aimer P/O. A. Hagan 135880 RAF Survived evader, returned
Wo ag Sgt. D.A. Clark 1331341 RAF Survived POW
Air gunner Sgt. A.R. Currie R/113684 RCAF Groesbeek RCAF 15 F 7
Air gunner Sgt. R.H. King R/109695 RCAF Groesbeek RCAF 15 F 6
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part one
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2497&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
https://www.bhic.nl/ontdekken/verhalen/explosie-in-de-nacht
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 27 September 1943 | LW265 | 77 Sqn RAF | 0 | Mittelshuchting, Bremen |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 22-Aug-2017 12:52 | gerard57 | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Jun-2018 15:31 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Nov-2018 21:04 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 23-Jun-2022 07:14 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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