Halifax BB282 B.Mk.II - Bombing Essen Germany - 1943-03-06 to 1943-03-06
Squadron: 76 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1943-03-06
Completion Date: 1943-03-06
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Essen Germany
Target Specific: Krupp Works factories
Base: RAF Linton-on-Ouse
Take Off Time: 18:53:00
Squadron Code: MP-R
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Netherlands
Crash Specifics: the Waddenzee, 10 km west of Harlingen
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: Major Helmut Lent of Stab IV/NJG1
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76 Squadron (Resolute) RAF Linton-on-Ouse. Halifax B Mk II aircraft BB 282 MP-R was shot down by night fighter ace Major Helmut Lent of Stab IV/NJG1, flying a Bf110 G-4 G9+EF from Leeuwarden airfield, Netherlands. The Halifax crashed into the Waddenzee, 10 km west of Harlingen, Netherlands with the loss of the entire crew

Warrant Officer Class 2 Clifford Arthur Milan (RCAF), Pilot Officer Ernest John Fry (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 2 Russell Benson Van Buren (RCAF)(USA), Sergeant Horace Clarence Cope (RAFVR), Sergeant Haydn Winston Edwards (RAFVR), Pilot Officer Ernest John Fry (RAFVR), Flying Officer Charles George Hitt (RAF) and Sergeant Owen Joseph Trainor (RAFVR) were all missing, presumed killed in action. The missing have no known grave but all are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part 1, 1 January - 22 June by Theo Boiten, page 38

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