ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53945
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| Date: | Sunday 19 May 1940 |
| Time: | 01:55 LT |
| Type: |  Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | 51 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | N1408 |
| MSN: | MH-K |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Kolenfeld, Wunstorf, Niedersachsen -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Dishforth |
Takeoff at 20:20 LT for an operation to an oil refinery plant at Hannover.
Over Germany, hit by Flak of the 2./Reserve-Flak-Abteilung 521 and crashed.
The crew were all made POW's. Sqdn Ldr W H N Turner DFC mid/Fg Off A C Peach/Sgt D J R Wilson/Sgt D S Edmondson/AC2 G B Smith. Smith was sent Heydekrug POW Camp while the rest of the crew were sent to Sagan.
Sources:
http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1940%20sec_tcm5-7281.pdf
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 1 1939-1940 page 130 Second Edition
Author:- W R Chorley.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=N1408
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 3 September 1940 | P5011 | 51 Sqn RAF | 0 | field beside the Great North Road at RAF Dishforth, Yorkshire, England | |
sub |
Images:
From the archives of the late Robert Dixon and passed to me by his widow
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 19-Jun-2013 11:13 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 11-Mar-2016 15:54 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Jul-2019 18:14 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Jan-2021 19:48 | thunderbird167 | Updated [Country, Photo] |
| 19-Oct-2021 18:34 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
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