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| Date: | Thursday 19 June 1941 |
| Time: | 01:58 LT |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk IC |
| Owner/operator: | 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | W5665 |
| MSN: | BH-M |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Waddenzee off Ameland, Friesland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Swinderby |
| RAF Swinderby |
Mission-Bremen. Took off from RAF Swinderby at 2202 hrs. Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Paul Gildner of the 4./NJG 1, who was flying Do 215 B-5 G9+NM from Leeuwarden airfield. Crashed 01:58 hrs into the Wanddenzee near Ameland. Sgt Domanski and Sgt Bankowski were first buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery at Nes, both now lie in Jonkerbos War Cemetery:
Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant Wladyslaw Paleniczek PAF [Killed]
Sergeant Piotr Ryszard Bankowski PAF P/781177 [Killed]
Pilot Officer Wiktor Cebrzynski PAF P/1437 [PoW]
Sergeant Jozef Domanski PAF P/780554 [Killed]
Sergeant Walenty Sieczka PAF P/781405 [Killed]
Sergeant Wladyslaw Weinberg PAF P/781630 [PoW]
Sergeant Stanislaw Jan Winek PAF P/780211 [PoW]
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1065&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 68.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 14-Apr-2016 19:11 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 17-Feb-2018 16:53 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport, ] |
| 17-Jun-2019 20:06 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 18-Jun-2019 02:41 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, ] |
| 04-Nov-2019 07:14 | Anon. | Updated [Operator, Operator, ] |
| 12-Jun-2022 10:02 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, ] |
| 30-Jun-2024 08:27 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
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