Studiegroep Luchtoorlog 1939-1945

Loss Register


Loss chart: T3319
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Day or Night of operation Operation Target Nickname Aircraft
21/22 Jan 44 Bombing Magdeburg
Factory Aircraft Mk Serial/Wnr. Code Unit Air Force TO/t Airfield
Handley Page Halifax III LV774 MH-B 51 Sqdn RAF 2004 Snaith
Time Cause of the Crash Crash Location Damage Province
0046 Shot down by Oblt. H.-H. Augenstein of 7./NJG 1 Crashed at shooting range Oldebroek Gelderland
Function Mil Rank Ini Name Age Mil reg Air Force Fate Cemetery Grave Remarks
Pilot F/O. J.A. Price 21 125472 RAF KIA Oldebroek 10
Flight Engineer P/O. J. Lanaghan 25 155909 RAF KIA Oldebroek 8
Navigator Sgt. D. Entwistle 29 1394106 RAF KIA Oldebroek 13
Bomb Aimer F/O. G.B. Pronger 23 J/22627 RCAF KIA Oldebroek 11
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Sgt. G.J. Bucknall 22 1232279 RAF KIA Oldebroek 12
Mid Upper Gunner Sgt. M.S. Smith 605495 RAF POW -
Rear Gunner Sgt. J. O'Sullivan 20 984533 RAF KIA Oldebroek 9
Wartime Records Background Info
Operations Record Book Chorley, ‘Bomber Command Losses 1944’, page 43; Boiten, ‘Nachtjagd Combat Archive January-March 1944’, page 52

Version March, 2022