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RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of Hainaut:
Boussu

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Crash site of Hampden AE197-EQ
28/08/1942

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cest raf squadron
Unit: 408 Squadron
Aircraft: Hampden
Code: AE197-EQ-
Base: Balderton
Mission: Saarbrücken
Crew officer: Fl/O VAN DEN BOCK R
Incident: Shot down by German fighter

Location: (Prov. Hainaut)

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Facts

akeoff at 19:54 hrs local time for an operation to Saarbrücken in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Wilhelm Herget of the Stab II./NJG 4, who was flying a Bf 110 in GCI-box 7B.
Wing Commander John D. Twigg, the squadron commander, was killed in his fourteenth operation and rests in the Gosselies communal cemetery. On board was also F/Lt Ian Maitland DFC, the tail gunner and also 'Gunnery Leader' of the squadron. In all probability Herget's salvos were fatal to him. He is buried at Boussu-lez-Walcourt.
The two survivors managed to evade capture.

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