Loss Register
Day or Night of operation | Operation | Target | Nickname Aircraft | |||||
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23/24 May 43 | Bombing | Dortmund | ||||||
Factory | Aircraft | Mk | Serial/Wnr. | Code | Unit | Air Force | TO/t | Airfield |
Handley Page | Halifax | V | DK169 | MP-M | 76 Sqdn | RAF | 2230 | Linton-on-Ouse |
Time | Cause of the Crash | Crash Location | Damage | Province |
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0239 | Shot down by Lt. H.-H. Augenstein of 7./NJG 1 | Crashed Broeklanderdijk at Broekland near Raalte | Overijssel |
Function | Mil Rank | Ini | Name | Age | Mil reg | Air Force | Fate | Cemetery | Grave | Remarks |
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Pilot | W/O. | C.H. | Cousins | 1320792 | RAF | POW | - | |||
Flight Engineer | Sgt. | J. | Parr | 1021354 | RAF | POW | - | |||
Navigator | P/O. | A.W.L. | Pruce | 130592 | RAF | EVD-POW | - | |||
Bomb Aimer | F/Sgt. | J.F. | Hughes | 1147600 | RAF | POW | - | |||
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner | Sgt. | A.G. | Dale | 21 | 1333001 | RAF | POW | - | Captured 24 May 43 Arnhem | |
Mid Upper Gunner | F/O. | J.W. | Coleman | 26 | 137555 | RAF | KIA | Raalte | 10 | |
Rear Gunner | F/Sgt. | H.A. | Crouse | R/97071 | RCAF | KIA | Raalte | 9 |
Wartime Records | Background Info |
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Operations Record Book | Chorley, ‘Bomber Command Losses 1943’, page 156 ; Boiten, ‘Nachtjagd Combat Archive January-June 1943’, page 100; Cornelissen, 'Van grasmat tot Fliegerhorst', page 300 and 403; TNA WO344/82/1 for details Dale |
Version March, 2022