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RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of Namur:
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Crash site of Halifax JB835-DY-X
28/08/1943

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Unit: 102 Squadron
Aircraft: Halifax
Code: JB835-DY-X
Base: Pocklington
Mission: Nürenberg
Crew officer: Sgt SPROAT, GORDON
Incident: Shot down by German fighter

Location: (Prov. Namur)

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Facts

Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the 12./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Leeuwarden airfield, the Netherlands. Earlier, during the night of 23rd / 24th May 1943 the crew of this 102 Squadron aircraft were tasked with bombing Dortmund and left Pocklington at 22.51hrs, during the course of the night the aircraft was damaged by flak in the tail and also in the flaps. The crew were able to make a safe return to base and landed at Pocklington at 04.54hrs without flaps.

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Temporary graves of crewmen (Aircrew-Remembered)

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Graves of crewmen intto the Heverlee War Cemetery (Aircrew-Remembered)

Sources:
Aircrew Remembered-JB835
The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
Aircrew Remembered
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