Accident Hawker Typhoon Mk IB SW443,
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Date:Thursday 3 May 1945
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic typh model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Hawker Typhoon Mk IB
Owner/operator:439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF
Registration: SW443
MSN: 5V-M
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Near Pinneberg -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:B.100 Goch Germany
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Hit by flak.
Pilot was J/88715 F/O George Franklin Burden RCAF

Sources:

The RCAF overseas the 6th year page 341.
Veterans Affairs Canada http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1530834
Back to Normandy https://backtonormandy.org/my-page/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hawker-typhoon/110600-4152422.html
439 SQN archives
Paradie RCAf database http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=burden+

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
8 August 1944 JR521 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF 0 Saint-Germain-d'Ectot w/o
10 February 1945 PD564 439 (Westmount) Sqn RCAF 0 B.86 Helmond Airfield, Noord-Brabant w/o
Gear-up landing

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
19-Dec-2017 17:49 tachel Added
20-Dec-2017 07:17 tachel Updated [Cn]

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