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Date: | Monday 27 September 1943 |
Time: | 23:30 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 428 (Ghost) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | LK915 |
MSN: | NA-V |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hülshagen, Lauenhagen, Niedersachsen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St George, County Durham |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:15 hrs (local time) for an operation against Hannover.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was picked up by searchlights and shot down by Oberleutnant Martin Drewes of the 11./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Leeuwarden airfield in the Netherlands.
Four of the crew rest in the Hannover War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/whalley-michael.html Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Jul-2021 18:57 |
TigerTimon |
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