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Date: | Saturday 12 June 1943 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 426 (Thunderbird) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | HZ261 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea or IJsselmeer -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Dishforth (EGXD) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by a Luftwaffe Bf 110, there are three possibilities:
- shot down by Unteroffizier Karl-Georg Pfeiffer of the 10./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Bergen or Leeuwarden airfield. Claim location: North Sea 30 km west of IJmuiden, Noord-Holland, with claim time 02:49.
- shot down by Oberleutnant Werner Husemann of the Stab/NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Deelen airfield. Claim location: IJsselmeer west of Kampen, with claim time 02:55.
- shot down by Major Kurt Holler of the Stab III./NJG 4 (detached to 1./NJG 1), flying a Bf 110 from Gilze-Rijen airfield. Claim location: IJsselmeer west of Urk, with claim time 02:55.
Target: Düsseldorf
Call Sign: OW-
Takeoff time: 23:14
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Norman Dennis Hayes RCAF J/17659 [Killed]
Flight Sergeant Donald Andrew MacKenzie RCAF R/143462 [Killed]
Flying Officer James Leslie Rawson RCAF J/20373 [Killed]
Flight Sergeant Desmond Gerald Richardson RCAF R/146946 : Commission Gazetted Monday 24 May, 1943) [Killed]
Flight Sergeant Clifford Earl Schamehorn RCAF R/119136 [Killed]
All are remembered at the Runnymede Memorial, United Kingdom (51.437693 / -0.564745)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=HZ261 Air Britain: RAF Aircraft HA100 - HZ999, published 1989
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Dec-2011 13:08 |
Uli Elch |
Added |
08-Jan-2012 09:04 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Location, Departure airport] |
11-Jun-2018 18:10 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
12-Oct-2018 12:33 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
12-Jan-2019 10:47 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
26-May-2024 07:09 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |