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Date: | Wednesday 15 April 1942 |
Time: | 04:55 |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 10 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R9492 |
MSN: | ZA-G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Greatham Moor, Surrey, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Returning from a mission over Dortmund with two engines on fire, he ordered his crew to bail out whilst he remained at the controls. He began loosing height spiralling downwards, but his Halifax (R9492) stalled into the ground killing him.
Crew
*Pilot: J/4825 Plt Off Richard Pryce Hughes (RCAF) - killed
Sgt R Atkinson
Sgt Trembath
Plt Off Ganderton
Sgt Stubley
Sgt Triggle
Sgt Tyson
*P/O Hughes - Native from Buenos Aires. Left Argentina 27th September 1940.
Sources:
CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942
*Argentinian Volunteers Roll of Honour WWII
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Dec-2017 16:03 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
02-Nov-2018 19:09 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Phase, Destination airport, Operator] |
01-Dec-2023 10:05 |
Nepa |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Narrative, Operator] |