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Date: | Sunday 20 December 1942 |
Time: | 19:45 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 76 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | DT511 |
MSN: | MP-D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Liedern, Bocholt, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 17:22 hrs for a bombing operation against Duisburg.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Wolfrat Bauer of the 7./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 F-4 from Twenthe airfield in the Netherlands. It was his final victory claim.
All eight men perished in the crash and rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=DT511 Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Nov-2020 18:57 |
TigerTimon |
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