Date:	Tuesday 6 June 1944
Time:
Type:	Douglas Dakota III (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	KG356
MSN:	12365
Year of manufacture:	1944
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	Bassenville -   France
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The C-47 was hit by flak on approach to dropzone K during Operation Tonga whilst dropping paratroops of 8th Battalion Parachute Regiment. The para bailed out, followed by the navigator and co-pilot. F/O Jones stayed with the aircraft because his injured gunner W/O Engleberg was unable to bail out.
W/O Engleberg survived the crash but F/O Jones was killed.

Air Britain: RAF Aircraft KA100 - KZ999, published 1990
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Aircraft lost on Allied Force’s Special Duty Operations & Associated Roll of Honour

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