Date:	Tuesday 19 August 1941
Time:	02:25
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator:	149 (East India) Sqn RAF
Registration:	X9704
MSN:	OJ-B
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Speckerweg road, Haelen, Limburg. -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk (MHZ/EGUN)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 23:29 hrs for an operation to Duisburg in Germany.
The aicraft was coned by searchlights for 3 minutes & was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Gerhard Herzog of the 3./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield. It crashed at Haelen 5km NW of Roermond. Plt Off Mendoza was fatally wounded in the attack. Those who died were initially laid to rest in Venlo. Later on they were reinterred in Jonkerbos War Cemetery

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer John Christian Lynn RAFVR 89386 (NCO:905214 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 21 January, 1941) [Killed]
Air Gunner : Pilot Officer Michael Isaac Archibald Mendoza RAF 82988 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 27 August, 1940) [Killed]
Sergeant John William Rae Culpan RNZAF NZ/401258 [PoW]
Pilot Officer Ralph Reynolds Henderson RCAF J/3755 [PoW]
Sergeant Cecil George Jones RAF 922752 [PoW]
Sergeant Kenneth Kingsley Sterrett RAF 1250142 [PoW]

The casualties lie at the Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Netherlands (51.822371 / 5.830618)

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
31-Dec-2018 21:28	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
01-Mar-2019 13:29	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, ]
18-Mar-2020 15:35	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
18-Mar-2020 15:36	TigerTimon	Updated [Embed code, ]
28-May-2024 07:07	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]