ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 155139
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| Date: | Wednesday 25 April 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Hawker Typhoon Mk IB |
| Owner/operator: | 438 (Wild Cat) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | RB323 |
| MSN: | F3-V |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Bovenau, 19 km W Kiel (S.-Holstein) -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | B.78 Eindhoven NL |
Aircraft flown by J/44192 F/O Thomas Merville Jones 438 SQN RCAF.
Hit by flak, abandonned aircraft, parachuted, captured and sent to POW camp. Ironically, he escaped on May 9th, a day after the war ended and made his way to France to call his fiancee back in Canada.
Sources:
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft PA100 - RZ999, published 1992
- 438 SQN RCAF archives
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=j%2F44192
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=44192
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 24 December 1944 | MP186 | 438 (Wild Cat) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Schmidtheim | |
w/o |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Apr-2013 12:20 | Uli Elch | Added |
| 14-Apr-2013 12:28 | Uli Elch | Updated [Date, Registration, Operator, Location] |
| 08-May-2013 16:42 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 01-Jun-2013 08:43 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 05-Nov-2017 18:41 | tachel | Updated [Narrative] |
| 16-Dec-2017 08:50 | tachel | Updated [Cn, Departure airport, Source] |
| 06-Jan-2018 20:03 | tachel | Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Narrative] |
| 27-Oct-2020 21:43 | tachel | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Oct-2020 21:46 | tachel | Updated [Other fatalities] |
| 21-Mar-2021 18:11 | tachel | Updated [Photo] |
| 21-Mar-2021 18:11 | tachel | Updated [Photo] |
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