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Date: | Wednesday 26 May 1943 |
Time: | 01:51 |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 77 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB837 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 14 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1 km south of Jülich, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Elvington |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Major Walter Ehle of the Stab II./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond airfield, Belgium.
The aircraft exploded with a full bomb load with such force that the two Stirlings flying close by, 15 Squadron BF534 and 7 Squadron EF361, were both knocked down, both crashing south of Jülich. Ehle was credited for all three victories by the Luftwaffe.
The Halifax crashed on railway repair works.
Target: Düsseldorf
Call Sign: KN-D
Takeoff time: 23:30
Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant Richard Lewis RAFVR 1425912 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant William Reginald Leslie Codd RAFVR 1316152 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant John Walton Richardson RAFVR 1062514 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant John Hunter Waterston RAFVR 1334179 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Joseph Kershaw RAFVR 1077003 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Joseph Fernand Rolland Laurence RCAF R/104713 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant David William Macfarlane RCAF R/88370 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB837 Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-May-2018 17:02 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
24-May-2018 18:57 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location, Narrative] |
28-May-2018 16:55 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Narrative] |
07-Nov-2018 21:08 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
19-May-2024 08:23 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |