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Date: | Monday 30 September 1940 |
Time: | |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk Ic |
Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R3292 |
MSN: | KO-F |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | between Devern and Grothe; Badbergen, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Marham, Norfolk (KNF/EGYM) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Vickers Wellington R3292 ("KO-F" of 115 Squadron, RAF) crashed near a farm house. Takeoff was at 19:37 hrs local time, the target being the marshalling yards of Osnabrück.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and shot down by a night fighter crew of the 2./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 from Vechta airfield. The Wimpey crashed either on the evening of the 30st of September or in the early hours of the 1st of October.
All six Crew members died and today three of them are still missing.
Runnymede Memorial:
Pilot Sgt. Cyril Wessels,
Sgt. Alexander Douglas Cameron and
Sgt. Neville Wiliam Gordon Thompson
Were first buried at the cemetery at Achmer. Today on the war cemetery in Reichswald Kleve-Germany:
Sgt. Alan Jervis Pennington
Sgt. Harald William Pritchard and
Sgt. James George Campbell McNair
The crash site and parts of the bomber was found by the German historian and Crash site Researcher Volker Urbansky from Cloppenburg.
Sources:
1. old report from Bramsche newspaper
2. Volker Urbansky historian and crash site researcher, Cloppenburg-Germany [v.urbansky@t-online.de]
3.
http://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/wellington/R32921940-10-01.html?tmpl=component&mapinfo=1 4. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
5.
https://115squadron-raf.be/crews/Wellington%20Mk%20IC%20-%20R3292%20-%20KO-F.html
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
21 May 1940 |
P9297 |
115 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Givet, near Poix-Terron, 10 km S of Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes |
|
w/o |
26 March 1942 |
X3589 |
115 Sqn RAF |
6 |
east-southeast of Goch, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
2 June 1942 |
X3721 |
115 Sqn RAF |
5 |
North Sea |
|
mis |
Images:
These remnants were found at the crash site 2017
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Mar-2017 18:40 |
Volker Urbansky |
Added |
18-Apr-2017 23:15 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Registration, Cn, Other fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
18-Apr-2017 23:16 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Time] |
18-Apr-2017 23:17 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
23-Dec-2017 16:28 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport, Narrative] |
28-Oct-2018 15:42 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
24-Sep-2020 15:02 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
24-Sep-2020 15:03 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time] |
24-Sep-2020 15:03 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time] |