Date:	Friday 4 July 1941
Time:	00:34
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator:	301 (Ziemi Pomorskiej) Sqn RAF
Registration:	R1492
MSN:	GR-M
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Eerste Exloërmond, Drenthe -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Syerston
Destination airport:	RAF Syerston

Narrative:
Mission-Bremen. Took off from RAF Syerston. Shot down by a night-fighter (Oblt Helmut Lent 4./NJG1, flying Bf 110 D-3 G9+FM from Leeuwarden airfield) and crashed 0034 hrs at Eerste Exloermond (Drenthe) 18 km NNE of Emmen Holland. Gp Capt Stachon was attached to SHQ Swinderby.

Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Waclaw Butkiewicz PAF P/76645 [PoW]
Sergeant Antoni Dydo PAF P/780826 [PoW]
Sergeant Zdzislaw Dziegiel PAF P/782126 [PoW]
Sergeant Zbigniew R Idzikowski PAF P/782236 [PoW]
Flying Officer Jerzy Palka PAF P/76648 [PoW]
Group Captain Boleslaw Stachon PAF [Killed]

Group Captain Stachon lies at the Breda, Polish Field of Honour, Netherlands (51.582632 / 4.747650)

Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 83.
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
24-Apr-2016 18:07	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
18-Oct-2018 16:59	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
02-Jul-2019 07:48	TigerTimon	Updated [Cn, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
27-Jan-2025 07:53	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]