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Date: | Wednesday 28 July 1943 |
Time: | 01:40 |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB864 |
MSN: | DY-E |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hamburg-Sasel -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Pocklington |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Claimed shot down by Unteroffizier Friedrich Hagios of the 4./JG Herrmann (flying a Bf 109 G-6 or Fw 190A) and by Feldwebel Wilhelm Kurreck of the 8./NJG 3 (flying a Bf 110) and by heavy Flak. Claims Fw. Kurreck and Flak subsequently confirmed. Also coned by searchlights.
Takeoff time: 22:44
Crew:
Pilot F/O. G.McF. Clarke 128546 RAF Germany 5A K 14-15 Buried Ohlsdorf War Cem Hamburg
Flight engineer Sgt. H.G. Bartle 949381 RAF Germany 5A K 14-15 Buried Ohlsdorf War Cem Hamburg
Navigator Sgt. P.S.C. Thorne MiD 1324224 RAF Doetinchem 1 12 killed (2-2-45) after escape from 2nd arrest jumped of a train
Bomb aimer F/O. E.W. Slipp J/13274 RCAF Survived POW
Wo ag Sgt. C.A. Bailey 1385068 RAF Germany 5A K 14-15 Buried Ohlsdorf War Cem Hamburg
Air gunner Sgt. D. Harrison 641277 RAF Germany 5A K 14-15 Buried Ohlsdorf War Cem Hamburg
Air gunner P/O. W.J. Slater 50613 RAF Survived POW
Sources:
https://www.verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2717A&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= - Air Britain: RAF Aircraft JA100 - JZ999, published 1990
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB864 Revision history:
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17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
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06-Sep-2011 02:38 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
07-Sep-2011 02:55 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
23-Apr-2018 19:59 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
26-Jul-2018 15:23 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
15-Oct-2018 14:36 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
16-Oct-2018 18:44 |
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Updated [Operator, Operator] |