Date:	Thursday 2 April 1942
Time:	night
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk III
Owner/operator:	57 Sqn RAF
Registration:	Z1565
MSN:	DX-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	between Wasserlos and Hörstein, south of Alzenau; Bayern -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Feltwell
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off at 20:55 hrs local time for a bombing operation against rail junctions at Hanau-Lohr in Hessen.
The aircraft failed to return due to the German defences.
Those who died were intially buried at Hanau. After the Second World War, the deceased were reburied at Dürnbach War Cemetery:


Pilot: 404936 Sgt William John Patterson - Dürnbach War Cemetery 5. D. 26.
Pilot: R/54303 Flt Sgt Arthur Allen Bussell RCAF -Durnbach War Cemetery 5. D. 24.
Observer: 1053676 Sgt Robert Cecil Roberts - Dürnbach War Cemetery 5. D. 27.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: R/64633 Flt Sgt William Mann Fraser RCAF - Dürnbach War Cemetery 5. D. 25.
Air Gunner: 1205877 Sgt Francis Henry Miller - Dürnbach War Cemetery 5. D. 28
Air Gunner: 751040 Sgt A Lees PoW Stalag Luft 3 Sagan & Belaria PoW Number 24820

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RAF Prisoners of War
bomber Command Losses 1942
"and in the morning" 57 Squadron Royal Air Force - Barry Hope. ISBN-13: 978-1-911255-11-6
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-Nov-2014 16:00	gerard57	Added
12-Feb-2015 13:52	Gagarin	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ]
27-Nov-2017 16:34	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
07-Nov-2018 19:19	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ]
31-Mar-2022 16:32	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]