Handley Page Halifax Mk II - Zuna, Overijssel, The Netherlands
N 52° 19.938 E 006° 29.777
32U E 329407 N 5800949
On May 24th, 1943 a Handley Page Halifax Mk II was shot down by a german night fighter and crashed on a field near the small village of Zuna.
Waymark Code: WM16G6K
Location: Overijssel, Netherlands
Date Posted: 07/26/2022
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Around 22:16 on May 23rd in 1943, the Handley Page Halifax Mk II bomber of the 78th Squadron Royal Air Force, registration JD122 and hull number EY-A, took off from RAF Linton-on-Ouse airfield north of York with a total of 826 others bombers. The destination was Dortmund in North Rhine-Westphalia for the night-time attack "Battle of the Ruhr", in which more than 2000t of bombs were to be dropped.
During the return flight the bombers were spotted and night fighters from Twente were sent to fight them. JD122 was hit several times by Hauptmann Wolfgang Thimmig's Messerschmidt Me 110 night fighter, caught fire and crashed near the small town of Zuna in Overijssel province on May 24, 1943 at 1:39 am. All seven crew members died in the crash, they were buried in the cemetery at Appelhofstraat in Wierden.
Crew
| Pilot | Sgt. Guy E. Schubert | RAF 1334705 |
| Flight engineer | Sgt. Ronald E. Goodyear | RAF 929591 |
| Navigator | Sgt. Donald C. Oliver | RAF 658522 |
| Bomb aimer | F/O. Alan B. Orme | RAF 129182 |
| Wireless operator | Sgt. Peter J. Wood | RAF 553971 |
| Air gunner | Sgt. Julius Goldflust | RAF 1272586 |
| Air gunner | Sgt. John Redman | RAF 1251710 |
References
- sign at the crash site
- Entry at aviation-safety.net