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RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of West-Vlaanderen:
Staden

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Crash site of Typhoon R8858-N
7/02/1943

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cest raf squadron
Unit: 609 Squadron
Aircraft: Typhoon
Code: R8858-N
Base: Manston
Mission:
Crew officer: F/Lt NANKIVELL, PETER JAMES
Incident: Shot down by German Fighter

Location: (Prov. West-Vlanderen)

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Facts

the British pilot Peter James Nankivell is buried in the civil cemetery in Staden? Born in 1920, Flight-Lieutenant Nankivell was a fighter pilot in the British Royal Air Force. On Sunday, 7 February 1943 he took off from RAF Manston in a Hawker Typhoon of 609 Squadron for a mission over occupied Europe. At 14.15 hours he was intercepted above the Kortemark-Ieper railway by a German Fokker Wulf 190. After a short dog-fight, Nankivell was shot down, his plane crashing into the meadow of the Muyssen-Courtens farmstead.

Sources:
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The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
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