Date:	Saturday 17 January 1942
Time:	21:45 LT
Type:	Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V
Owner/operator:	51 Sqn RAF
Registration:	Z9301
MSN:	MH-N
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing
Location:	North Sea N of Terschelling, Friesland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Dishforth
Destination airport:	Emden

Narrative:
During the night of 17-18 January 1942, the RAF Bomber Command sent 119 bombers over Europe. The main objective for the night was Bremen, the target of 83 aircraft, but only 8 crew claimed to have bombed the primary target. Some of the bombers attacking alternative targets bombed Hamburg that reported 11 fires, 5 dead and 12 injured. Three Wellingtons did not return from this raid, a Whitley was lost in a raid on Emden and a Stirling crashed in England after being fired at and damaged by a British convoy.

The Whitley V Z9301 MH-N of 51 Sqn RAF took off at 17:20 from Dishforth to attack Emden with 23 other bombers but did not return. It was shot down at 21:45 in the North Sea North of Terschelling by Oberleutnant Helmut Lent of the Stab II./NJG 2 (as his 28th confirmed victory; flying Bf 110 R4+AC from Leeuwarden airfield) and the whole crew was lost. All are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

Crew:
Sgt James Thomas Thom (pilot)
Plt Off George Thomas Ellis
Sgt Frederick Ralph Isaacs
Sgt John Mayes
Sgt William John Sullivan
Sgt Bertie Bowring

"Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, vol 3: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1942", by W R Chorley. ISBN 0-904597-89-X
"The Bomber Command War Diaries", by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt, ISBN 1-85780-033-8
http://www.luftwaffe.cz/lent.html
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terschelling
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Jan-2017 10:13	Laurent Rizzotti	Added
01-Nov-2017 19:47	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative]
02-Nov-2019 09:45	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
14-Jun-2022 23:13	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]