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Date: | Saturday 17 April 1943 |
Time: | 00:35 |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 158 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | HR779 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | in a field near Void-Vacon, Meuse, Grand Est -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Lissett |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Otto Materne of the 4./NJG 4, flying a Bf 110 from Saint-Dizier airfield.
Target: Mannheim
Call Sign: NP-Z
Takeoff time: 21:11
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Dennis Francis Bertera RAF 118065 (NCO:909953 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 31 March, 1942) [Evaded]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Francis Roycroft Berkeley RAF 1436315 [PoW]
Navigator : Sergeant Anthony James Fuge RAF 1388591 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant W J Jenkins RAF 1316316 [Evaded]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant J W E Lawrence RAF 1087496 [Evaded]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant W J Barber RAF 1319207 [Evaded]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Eric Durant RAF 1539234 [PoW]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=5547 Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
16-Apr-2018 15:49 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
02-Nov-2018 12:32 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
16-Apr-2024 07:23 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |