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Date: | Monday 5 October 1942 |
Time: | 22:50 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W7824 |
MSN: | DY-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 8 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Ingendorf, Pulheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 18:41 hrs local time for an operation to Aachen in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was coned by several searchlights and hit by Flak of the 7. Flak-Division over Köln, crashed in flames at Ingendorf.
The pilot, Warrant Officer Frederick Arthur Schaw, did not survive and rests in the Rheinburg War Cemetery. The seven others were all taken prisoner of war.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W7824 Google Maps
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