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Date: | Monday 25 August 1941 |
Time: | 01:16 claim |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | L9572 |
MSN: | TL-G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Grosage, Chièvres, Hainaut -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 20:53 hrs for an operation to Düsseldorf in Germany.
On return, the aircraft was shot down by Oberleutnant Griese & Unteroffizier Schenke of the 1./NJG 1, who were flying a Bf 110 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield.
The seven-man crew - P/O Jack MacGregor-Cheers (pilot, 24 y.), his co-pilot Sgt Thomas McHale, navigator Sgt Alistair Heggie (24 y.), radio operator Sgt Jack Fuller (21 y.), the Canadian mid-upper gunner Sgt James Anderson, tail gunner P/O Vivian Markham and flight engineer Sgt Walter Collins - rest at Chièvres.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/halifax-l9572-bij-grosage http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=L9572 Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Mar-2020 21:44 |
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19-Mar-2020 21:44 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
03-Dec-2021 20:41 |
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Updated [Narrative] |
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