Date:	Wednesday 3 June 1942
Time:	01:35 claim
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk II
Owner/operator:	12 Sqn RAF
Registration:	Z8533
MSN:	PH-V
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Molenbeersel, Kinrooi, Limburg -   Belgium
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Binbrook
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 23:44 hrs for an operation to Essen in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Siegfried Wandam of the 3./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands; crashed Molenbeersel (Limburg), 10 km ENE of Bree.

Those who did not survive rest at Heverlee War Cemetery:-
Pilot:Aus/404819 Flt Sgt Harold Edgar Dimmock RAAF - Heverlee War Cemetery 7. J. 4.
Observer: RAFVR 1375218 Sgt Reginald Cecil Cushway - Heverlee War Cemetery 7. J. 5.
Bomb Aimer:1163127 Sgt Derek Victor Smith PoW Stalag 357 Kopernikus. PoW Number 528
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:111252 Plt Off Dennis William O'Driscoll King PoW Stalag Luft 3 Zagan & Belaria. PoW Number 228368 (NCO:1360456 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 03 February, 1942)
Air Gunner: Sgt Robinson Ferguson - Heverlee War Cemtery 7. J. 6.

CWGC
RAF Prisoners of War
Bomber Command Losses 1942
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=Z8533
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Jan-2018 16:45	Red Dragon	Added
19-Oct-2018 14:24	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ]
24-Apr-2020 16:57	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
22-May-2024 14:30	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]