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Date: | Wednesday 3 June 1942 |
Time: | 02:57 |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R9491 |
MSN: | DY-N |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea off Harwich, Essex, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Dalton |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:35 hrs for an operation to Essen in Germany.
Homeward-bound, it crashed into the North Sea off Harwich. Probably, the aircraft was attacked by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Alois Lechner of the Ergänzungsstaffel/NJG 2, who was flying a Ju 88 C-6 from Gilze-Rijen airfield in the Netherlands.
Only Sgt Brody's body was recovered:
R/61031 WOI Frank Alex Holmes RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 101.
809173 Sgt William Longster Crowther - Runnymede Memorial Panel 81.
R/56238 WOII George Henry Herbert Marks RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 102.
953171 Sgt Stanley Arnett - Runnymede Memorial Panel 77.
971036 Flt Sgt Fred Booth Croix de Guerre - Runnymede Memorial Panel 73.
Air Gunner:1378930 Sgt David Boddy - Stockton-on-Tees (Durham Road) Cemetery Sec. 1. C. of E. Row L. Grave 16.
1312853 Sgt George Francis Jenkins - Runnymede Memorial Panel 87.
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses 1942
CWGC
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=%09R9491 Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Jan-2018 20:13 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
14-Oct-2018 17:13 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
08-Jan-2020 18:27 |
rvargast17 |
Updated [Time] |
24-Apr-2020 17:51 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
24-Apr-2020 17:54 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location, Source, Damage, Narrative] |