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| Date: | Thursday 4 June 1942 |
| Time: | 00:27 |
| Type: |  Short Stirling Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | W7474 |
| MSN: | HA-K |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Het Kuitje, Den Helder, Noord-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Marham |
Takeoff at 23:06 hrs for a bombing operation to Bremen in Germany. Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Ludwig Becker of the 6./NJG 2, who had taken off from Leeuwarden airfield.
Crew:-
2nd Pilot : Pilot Officer James Garscadden RAFVR 106113 (NCO:1023137 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 28 October, 1941) [Killed]
Observer : Pilot Officer John Douglas Insch RAF 100055 (NCO:1056075 : Commission Gazetted Friday 25 July, 1941) [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Harold Cyril Frederick Broadbent DFM RAFVR 971256 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Leo Louis Joseph Farley RCAF R/60963 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Keith Rowland Cox RAF 1019151 [PoW]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Norman Cyril Frederick Sibley RAFVR 1334367 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Leonard James Smith RAF 616593 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Pilot Officer John Richard Webber RAFVR 123861 (NCO:1262680 : Commission Gazetted Friday 10 July, 1942) [Killed]
The casualties lie at the Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery, Holland (51.502028 / 4.332920)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1574&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
Google Maps
Bomber Command Losses 1942
CWGC
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 03-Jun-2017 10:35 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Jan-2018 15:34 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Jan-2018 15:37 | Red Dragon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 15-Jan-2018 18:42 | XindelX | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 25-Apr-2020 11:01 | TigerTimon | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 23-May-2024 06:50 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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