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Date: | Tuesday 28 April 1942 |
Time: | 00:46 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 150 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z3288 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Monheim / Ödstein -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Snaith |
Destination airport: | operation - Köln |
Narrative:Hit by heavy (schwere) Flak; crashed in NRW. There are three possible locations:
1. Köln-Kalk at 00:46
Crew
Pilot:1180254 Sgt Aubrey George Hutchinson - Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. E. 5-8.
Pilot:1379636 Sgt John Robert Cowan - Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. E. 5-8.
Observer:106363 Plt Off Frank Alan Mitchell - Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. E. 5-8.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:1005766 Sgt Frederick Wilberforce Potts - Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. E. 5-8.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:917377 Sgt Christopher William Turner - Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. E. 5-8.
Air Gunner:1186829 Sgt Phillip Goldham Fussell - Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. E. 5-8.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Bomber Command Losses 1942
CWGC
Lost Bombers
Aircrew Remembered for serial Z3288 (other sources have X3288)
Google Maps
HASt Köln Best.9612 / A 34
Cologne district archive
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-Dec-2017 17:38 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
31-Oct-2018 14:02 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Operator] |
22-Feb-2019 16:31 |
rvargast17 |
Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Country, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
25-Apr-2022 19:30 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
25-Apr-2022 19:30 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Destination airport] |
25-Apr-2022 19:31 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Cn] |
11-May-2022 06:53 |
manniwei |
Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
14-Sep-2022 08:15 |
manniwei |
Updated [Location, Source] |