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Date: | Thursday 4 June 1942 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 76 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W1104 |
MSN: | MP-F |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Waddenzee W of Harlingen, Friesland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St. George, Durham |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:14 hrs for an operation to Bremen in Germany & failed to return. The aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances.
Crew:-
Pilot:105196 Plt Off John Adams Philp - Runnymede Memorial Panel 71 (NCO:1311986 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 23 September, 1941)
Flight Engineer:971129 Sgt John Battersby - Sage War Cemetery (Germany); grave 5. D. 3.
Observer:1057349 Sgt Frank Edwin Ormerod 1057349 RAF Vlieland General Cemetery; grave 41.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:J/15671 Plt Off Robert Samuel Mulhauser (American) RCAF - Sage War Cemetery (Germany); grave 7. E. 8.
Air Gunner:1358088 Sgt James Henry Harte Vlieland General Cemetery; grave 42.
Air Gunner:178071 Sgt Willie Watson - Runnymede Memorial Panel Panel 96
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/item2.php?SGLO=T1571 Google Maps
http://www.626-squadron.co.uk/willem16.htm CWGC
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
08-Sep-2015 17:51 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
07-Dec-2015 17:55 |
Faun |
Updated [Operator] |
03-Jun-2017 10:35 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
09-Jan-2018 19:00 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
12-Nov-2018 08:54 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
25-Apr-2020 12:44 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
14-Jun-2022 21:46 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
23-May-2024 06:38 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |