File 774. 1943-11-03/03 Spitfire BL430 F/O Jacobs Zandvoort

Details
Date: 1943 Nov 03/03 A/C Type: Spitfire Vb SN: Code: BL430 A/C Nickname:
 File: 774 Airforce: RAF Sqn/Unit:  416 Sqn (RCAF) Mission/Raid: Bomber escort (return B-26s Schiphol)
1 Pilot F/O William H. Jacobs        (Canada) KIA 9    
2     10    
3     11    
4     12    
5     13    
6     14    
7     15    
8     16                    

Shot down in dogfights with Me-109s and downed in coastal village Zandvoort. Spitfires were covering the return route of B-26 that had bombed Amsterdam Schiphol airfield.
 


F/O William H. Jacobs was initially buried in Zandvoort (grave 3). In 1953 he was reburied in centralisation War Cemetery Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian section.

- File Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery:  http://www.zzairwar.nl/dossiers/991.html





Sources: 

- Book 'Doelwit Schiphol' by Rob van den Nieuwendijk, 1993.
- website CWGC





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