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Date: | Friday 31 July 1942 |
Time: | 23:47 |
Type: | Douglas DB-7B Boston Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 418 (City of Edmonton) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | W8326 |
MSN: | TH-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hoeverweg, Egmond aan den Hoef, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bradwell Bay, Essex |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Boston W8326: Took off for Operation flight / intruder mission over Leeuwarden airfield. 31/07/1942
Hit by light Flak of the II. Zug 3./leichte Flak-Abteilung 764 and the I.-IV. Zug 3./leichte Flak-Abteilung 845;
Crashed in Hoeverweg, Egmond aan den Hoef, Noord-Holland at 23:47 hrs.
The crew:
P/O.(J/8402) R.S. Patterson (pilot) RCAF - killed
P/O.(J/9511) M.G. Abey (obs.) RCAF - killed
F/Sgt.(R/54319) C.O. O'Brien (WOp/AG) RCAF - killed
Sources:
http://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/item2.php?SGLO=T1735 Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
ORB 418 Sqdn RCAF
Media:
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
11-Aug-2017 09:20 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
25-Jan-2018 07:49 |
XindelX |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
13-May-2020 08:39 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
22-Jun-2022 09:34 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
04-Jul-2022 18:57 |
Nepa |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
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