Date:	Saturday 6 September 1941
Time:	23:45 LT
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator:	75 (NZ) Sqn RAF
Registration:	X9767
MSN:	AA-S
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	between the Waterhoekdijk - Holtmaatsdijk roads, Haarlo, Gelderland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Feltwell
Destination airport:	RAF Feltwell

Narrative:
Target - a chemical factory at Hüls (Krefeld) in Nordrhein-Westfalen

The aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Helmut Woltersdorf of the 7./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Twente airfield. All are buried in Borculo General Cemetery:


Pilot : P/O James Edward Johnson RAF 66519 (NCO:1166450) [Killed]
2/Pilot : Sgt Peter Simpson Dickson Johnston RAFVR 776002 [Killed]
Obs : Sgt Robert Michael Minchin RAFVR 751355 [Killed]
W/Op/AG : Sgt Wilfred Bearne RAFVR 976174 [Killed]
W/Op/AG : Sgt Ronald Davies RAFVR 751130 [Killed]
R/G : Sgt William John Barker RAFVR 1378561 [Killed]

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
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Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 138.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
08-May-2016 16:27	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
27-Oct-2018 19:32	Nepa	Updated [Time, Operator, Operator, ]
24-Mar-2020 15:31	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ]
24-Mar-2020 15:32	TigerTimon	Updated [Source, ]
01-Sep-2021 15:36	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, ]
01-Sep-2021 15:45	TigerTimon	Updated [Date, Time, ]
07-Sep-2022 07:53	Anon.	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
13-Mar-2025 17:46	Anon.	Updated
13-Mar-2025 17:46	Anon.	Updated [Photo, ]