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| Date: | Wednesday 26 May 1943 |
| Time: | 02:33 |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk X |
| Owner/operator: | 192 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | HE228 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Ockenburgstraat / Alidastraat, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Feltwell |
Shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Heinz Strüning of the 2./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Gilze-Rijen airfield. The Wellington was on a radio countermeasures operation to Germany.
Call Sign: DT-C
Takeoff time: 00:22
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Bell RAFVR 1288776 [Killed]
Navigator (Radar) : Pilot Officer Thomas William Spencer Wilson RAF 133808 (NCO:1577469 : Commission Gazetted Friday 18 December, 1942) [PoW]
Pilot Officer George Barrett RAF 130697 (NCO:1306456 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 08 December, 1942) [PoW]
Sergeant Douglas Gordon Bergey RCAF R/139928 [PoW]
Sergeant Arthur William Heywood RAF 1537039 [PoW]
Sergeant James Thomson RAF 1341341 [PoW]
Flight Sergeant Bell is remembered at the Runnymede Memorial, United Kingdom (51.437693 / -0.564745)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2383&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Air Britain: RAF Aircraft HA100 - HZ999, published 1989
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 30-Dec-2011 07:27 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 24-May-2018 19:51 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 02-Nov-2018 19:47 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator, ] |
| 18-Jun-2022 00:40 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, ] |
| 29-May-2024 12:41 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
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