Squadron: 467 (B) Sqn (RAAF)
Start Date: 1943-05-26
Completion Date: 1943-05-26
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Dusseldorf Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Bottesford, Lincolnshire, England
Take Off Time: 23:41
Squadron Code: PO N
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Belgium
Crash Specifics: 's Gravenwezel, Schilde, Antwerpen
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Hermann Sommer of the Ergänzungsstaffel/NJG 2 (detached to the 1./NJG 1). He was flying Ju 88 C-2 R4+FU from Gilze-Rijen airfield, the Netherlands
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
467 Australia Squadron. Hit by Flak and crashed 0209 26 May 1943 at _s-Gravenwezel (Antwerpen) 11 km ENE from the centre of Antwerpen where those killed are buried in Schoonselhof Cemetery. Casualties included RAF Sgt's. T. Chalmers and B. Spencer, and RAAF Flt. Sgt. J. M. Parsons. Taken Prisoners of War were RAF Sgt's J.P. Egan, R.A. Hunt, and N.J. Vaulkhard, and RCAF Sgt. J.F. Selman.
6 Group Unavailable
467 Australia Squadron. Hit by Flak and crashed 0209 26 May 1943 at _s-Gravenwezel (Antwerpen) 11 km ENE from the centre of Antwerpen where those killed are buried in Schoonselhof Cemetery. Casualties included RAF Sgt's. T. Chalmers and B. Spencer, and RAAF Flt. Sgt. J. M. Parsons. Taken Prisoners of War were RAF Sgt's J.P. Egan, R.A. Hunt, and N.J. Vaulkhard, and RCAF Sgt. J.F. Selman.
