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| Date: | Tuesday 29 February 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Consolidated B-24 Liberator B Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | 159 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | BZ962 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Rangoon -
 Myanmar
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF ??? |
Shot down by nightfighter. The entire crew perished in the crash. Seven crew members are buried at the Rangoon War Cemetery. Two are MIA.
Liberator BZ962 was the first of two 159 Sqn Liberators (the second being BZ926) shot down by Hiroshi Takiguchi and Bunichi Yamaguchi, Ki-43 Oscar fighter pilots of the Japanese Army Air Force's 204th Sentai (Flying Regiment). The Oscars, attacking from behind BZ962 (one 500 meters above the other), had been working in cooperation with the searchlights. BZ962 exploded at low altitude and scattered wreckage near Ledaunggan village several miles south of Rangoon. All nine crewmen died (including 420112 F/Sgt Allan Arnold, RAAF, skipper). Seven sets of remains were buried by villagers, exhumed in 1952 by the British, and reburied in separate unnamed graves in Rangoon War Cemetery, Burma.
Sources:
https://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-24/BZ962.html
http://www.hullandeastridingatwar.co.uk/index.php/rafsqdns/daring-diana
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Feb-2016 15:30 | gerard57 | Added |
| 09-Oct-2018 19:47 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 11-May-2024 19:15 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Narrative, Operator] |
| 11-May-2024 19:16 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
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