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Date: | Friday 28 May 1943 |
Time: | 00:47 |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 51 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | HR750 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Oud-Reemst, Otterlo, Gelderland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Snaith |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Heinz Oloff of the 2./NJG 1, flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+GK from Gilze-Rijen airfield.
Target: Essen
Call Sign: MH-W
Takeoff time: 23:08
Crew:-
Pilot : Warrant Officer Alan Henry Beeston RAF 903396 [PoW]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Ernest David Matthews RAF 960207 [PoW]
Navigator : Flying Officer Roy Walker RAF 152944 (NCO:1520917 : Commission Gazetted Sunday 12 December, 1943) [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Harold West RAF 948124 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Hector Felix Court RAF 1267019 [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Alfred George East RAF 924414 [PoW]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Edmond Henry Perlman RAF 1319196 [PoW]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2387&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
28-May-2018 18:39 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-Nov-2018 18:54 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
23-Feb-2019 18:04 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location] |
20-May-2024 06:57 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |