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Date: | Monday 30 March 1942 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 10 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W1044 |
MSN: | ZA-D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hemnefjorden, Hellandsjøen -
Norway
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Lossiemouth (takeoff at 18:51 hrs local time) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz, moored at Fættenfjord north of Trondheim. Aircraft crashed in Asenfjorden close to the Tirpitz.
Crew
403419 Plt Off Neil Ralph Blunden RNZAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 114.
102112 Plt Off Geoffrey Cyril Day - Trondheim (Stavne) Cemetery A IV British. B. 13.
1175893 Sgt William Benjamin Eastwood - Runnymede Memorial Panel 82.
575840 Sgt Reginald G.A. Richards - Trondheim (Stavne) Cemetery A IV British. B. 14.
R/68080 Flt Sgt Harold Ralph Franklin RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 104.
1007103 Sgt.Kenneth Coverdale May - Trondheim (Stavne) Cemetery A IV British. B. 12.
R/69157 Flt Sgt Arthur Reginald Henman RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 104
Sources:
CWGC
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Bomber Command Losses 1942.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/blunden-neil.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Nov-2017 17:44 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
02-Nov-2018 19:01 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
25-May-2021 19:00 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source] |
21-Nov-2021 20:07 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |