Accident de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV DZ469,
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Date:Wednesday 10 March 1943
Time:18:25
Type:Silhouette image of generic MOSQ model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV
Owner/operator:139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF
Registration: DZ469
MSN: XD-J
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:45 km north of Bayeux, Calvados, Lower Normandy. -   France
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Mosquito DZ469/J: Took off at 17:10 hrs for a Bombing Raid The Renault factory Le Mans. 10/03/1943
Missing. Shot down by Me109 Ltn. Karl von der Lieres und Wilkau: 3./JG 27
Crew:
S/Ldr (44775) Robert Beck BAGGULEY DFC (pilot) RAF: Killed (NCO:564549 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 19 November, 1940)
F/Lt (44407) Charles Kenneth HAYDEN DFC (obs) RAF: Killed (NCO:513240 Commission Gazetted : Friday 13 September, 1940)

Sources:

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
2.ORB 139 Sqdn RAF
3.CWGC
4.Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
28 July 1943 DZ458 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 0 Gasthuisstraat, Veghel, Noord-Brabant. w/o
28 March 1945 MM131 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF 1 north of Brandenburg w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
18-Jan-2010 06:58 NePa Added
31-Oct-2011 12:31 Nepa Updated [Source, Narrative]
06-Mar-2012 09:59 Nepa Updated [Operator, Departure airport]
18-Jul-2014 14:18 R.Giggs Updated [Aircraft type, Phase, Narrative]
22-Jul-2015 13:34 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type]
10-Oct-2015 06:48 Nepa Updated [Location, Source]
10-Oct-2015 16:08 Nepa Updated [Cn]
02-Mar-2019 19:01 Nepa Updated [Narrative, Operator]
22-Apr-2019 13:35 Nepa Updated [Location, Operator]
06-May-2019 19:20 Nepa Updated [Location, Operator]
30-Sep-2021 14:22 Nepa Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, Operator]
25-Apr-2022 22:38 Nepa Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator]
11-May-2022 06:07 grapeshot418 Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Photo]
12-Oct-2022 07:56 Anon. Updated [Source, Narrative]

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