Mosquito MM678 crash near Tienen/Tirlemont

[mhuxt]

Vale's casualty file states the aircraft crashed at vK1053, which according to this site:

http://www.echodelta.net/mbs/eng-translation.php

is

Latitude : 50.84574°
Longitude : 5.03748°

5 miles NE of Tirlemont.

Same file says the aircraft was on a night-fighter sortie to Bremen and Dortmund, no doubt supporting raids on those cities. They took off at 18:07 - not sure what times the raids were.

I've no matching Luftwaffe claim, however it seems another Mosquito reported shooting down a Ju 88 4 miles southeast of Diest, virtually the same place MM678 crashed. Sadly, I'd be willing to bet that "friendly fire" is a possibility.

[Alain57]

Hello Redcap ,

I have this as a probably crashsite :

Drieslinter wijk Meirbeek & Den Tranter

Regards

Alain57

[Alain57]

Hello Redcap

Vale 18/12/1916 Nathalia Victoria enlisted on 28/02/1941 , buried at Evere Brussels grave nr 4032 on 10/10/1944

Regards

Alain57