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| Date: | Sunday 30 May 1943 |
| Time: | 00:27 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | HR793 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Trichterweg, Limbricht, near Sittard, Limburg -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Graveley, Cambridgeshire |
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Wilhelm Beier of the 3./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Venlo airfield.
Target: Barmen-Wuppertal
Call Sign: TL-J
Takeoff time: 22:31
Crew:-
Pilot : Squadron Leader Peter Johnston DFC RAFVR 68139 (NCO:745398 : Commission Gazetted Friday 04 July, 1941) [Killed]
2nd Pilot : Flight Sergeant Ernest Alfred Roede RAF 1375988 [PoW]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Frederick James Jarvis RAF 567590 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Reginald Gordon Houston RAF 121556 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Roy Wood RCAF J/22561 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant Benjamin Thomas Royall RAAF Aus/403819 [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant A W Gowan RCAF [PoW]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Michael Thomas Byrne RAF 1394079 [PoW]
The two casualties are remembered at the Runnymede Memorial, United Kingdom (51.437693 / -0.564745)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2397&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://ww2crashsiteresearch.com/pagina46.html
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 09-Oct-2014 20:15 | gerard57 | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 19-Oct-2014 07:26 | Dandy | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport] |
| 29-May-2018 19:23 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-May-2018 19:24 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location] |
| 21-May-2024 06:53 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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