Date:	Saturday 13 May 1944
Time:	00:45 LT
Type:	Handley Page Halifax Mk III
Owner/operator:	431 (Iroquois) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	MZ629
MSN:	SE-B
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Middenhut, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Flemish Brabant -   Belgium
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Croft, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 21:47 hrs for an operation against the railway yards at Leuven.
The aircraft was intercepted by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Strüning & Oberleutnant Apel of the 3./NJG 1, who had taken off from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands, in Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+EL. This was their 41st victory.

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Charles John Campbell RCAF J/90759 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant John Duncan MacPherson RAFVR 1823549 [Killed]
Navigator : Warrant Officer Class II C S Barzacle RCAF [Evaded]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Stuart Marvin Preston RCAF J/25123 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus RCAF J/86453 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer Earl Dwight Empey RCAF J/90085 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer Alvin Edward Yarington RCAF J/90047 [Killed]

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/halifax-bij-hallerbos
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=MZ629
personnel files crew members (location: "bei Espinette, 15 km südsüdöstlich Brüssel")
Google Maps
Theo Boiten: Nachtjagd 1944 vol 3, p. 006.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
03-Aug-2020 14:43	TigerTimon	Added
17-Aug-2020 15:20	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, Source]
17-Aug-2020 15:21	TigerTimon	Updated [Location]
26-Sep-2020 21:51	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, Accident report]
28-Sep-2020 18:34	TigerTimon	Updated [Location]
07-Nov-2022 01:38	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
07-May-2023 07:23	Anon.	Updated
11-May-2024 14:53	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]