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Date: | Sunday 30 May 1943 |
Time: | 00:29 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 432 (Leaside) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | LN435 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Noordpolder, Goudswaard, Zuid-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Skipton-on-Swale |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Heinz Oloff of the 2./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Gilze-Rijen airfield.
Target: Barmen-Wuppertal
Call Sign: QO-J
Takeoff time: 22:39
Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant William Hamilton Grigg RCAF R/126558 [PoW]
Navigator : Sergeant Kenneth Munro Jordan RAF 1383878 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Joseph John Henry Barter RAF 658296 [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Leslie George Hardy RAFVR 1272168 [Killed] Numansdorp E 1 Washed up Tiengemeten 31 May 43
Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Gordon William Thompson RCAF R/115765 [Killed] Rotterdam LL 2 42
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2402&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
http://wo2-hoekschewaard.nl/luchtoorlog/overzicht-vliegtuigen-betrokken-bij-luchtoorlog-hoeksche-waard/ Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
29-Dec-2011 12:09 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
31-Jan-2015 11:01 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
29-May-2018 19:37 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
30-May-2018 06:51 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
11-Oct-2018 19:26 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
21-May-2024 07:12 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |