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Date: | Friday 14 August 1942 |
Time: | 02:44 LT |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 7 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W7579 |
MSN: | MG-Y |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 8 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea off Nymindegab, Nørre Nebel, Syddanmark -
Denmark
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 21:28 hrs local time for a Gardening (mine-laying) operation to 'Daffodils' (southern entrance to The Sound).
The aircraft was attacked by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Fritz Hobusch of the 7./NJG 2 based at Grove airfield; crashed at 02:44 hours into the sea 300 meters off Nymindegab.
Pilot F/S Hugh M. Clark, Second Pilot Sgt. Gerard Carroll, Flight Engineer Sgt. William G. Foale and Air Gunner Sgt. James A. Adamson have no known graves and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial while Navigator P/O Henry Astell-Burt, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Sgt. John W. Street and Air Gunner Sgt. Frank A. Hayes were laid to rest in Fovrfelt cemetery in Esbjerg on 18 August.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.flensted.eu.com/194245.shtml Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
16-May-2020 17:55 |
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16-May-2020 17:59 |
TigerTimon |
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