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Date: | Monday 27 September 1943 |
Time: | 23:00 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 434 (Bluenose) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | LK917 |
MSN: | IP-X |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Eberholzen, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Tholthorpe, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:25 hrs (local time) for an operation against Hannover.
The aircraft was shot down by Leutnant Erwin Ernst of the 9./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield in the Netherlands.
Note: coned by searchlights.
All eight rest in the Hannover War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LK917&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact Google Maps
Revision history:
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