Beaufighter shot down on 05.12.1943

[Erik Mombeeck]

Hi,
I'm searching information on a Beaufighter shot down off Gossen (Norway) on 05.12.1943. Who can help me?
Many thanks

Eric

[Alex Smart]

Hello Eric,

Could only find the following for the 5th December 1943 -

V8157 - 404 Sqdn - Cr Bucksburn Farm Dyce.

LZ433 - 489 Sqdn - Engine Fire near Tain.

LZ319 - 144 Sqdn - Ditched off Wick following mid aircollision with LZ219 which survived the collision only to be lost at a later date.

Alex

[Erik Mombeeck]

Hello Alex,

thanks a lot for this information... even if this does not really match with what I hoped to learn. Gossen is far from these loss-places.

best regards

Eric Mombeek
www.luftwaffe.be

[Alex Smart]

Hello Eric,

Are you sure about the date being the 5th ?

There are other losses recorded for the 6th and so perhaps thought that the date may be out.

Alex

[Alex Smart]

Hi Eric,

There was LZ403 of 404 Sqdn lost on anti shipping rece off Norway on the 8th December 1943.

Alex

[rafcommands]

Hi Alex,

You are a year out for the loss of V8157 in a high speed stall.

Regards
Ross

[Alex Smart]

Hi,
That may be so, but better to ask Eric, as he gave the date of 5th December 1943 in his enquiry.
So it may be another loss he seeks for the 5th december 1943.

Over to you Eric

[rafcommands]

Alex,

I was not offering the loss of V8157 as the answer to Eric's question, rather giving information that you had attributed the wrong year to the loss of V8157.

From the draft RAF Coastal Command Losses, Vol 2.

05/12/42
404 Sqn
Beaufighter IIf
V8157
EE-P

Sgt N Taylor RCAF, R/86834, +
Sgt S E Pike, 656495, +

Training, RAF Dyce

Took off for formation flying but suffered a high speed stall and dived into the ground at Bucksburn Farm near Dyce at 11:00 hrs. Sgt Taylor, of Wainwright, Alberta, rests locally in Dyce Old Churchyard, Aberdeenshire, while Sgt Pike was buried at Radcliffe-on-Trent Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Regards
Ross

[Alex Smart]

Hello Ross,

I see now

But my copy of Air Brit T1000 to V999 page 132 has V8157 5.12.43.

Alex

[rafcommands]

Hi Alex,

Typo in Air Brit.

Form 1180, CWGC, Local police records and R&SU ORBs all confirm as 1942.

Regards
Ross