ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 223520
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| Date: | Thursday 27 March 1941 |
| Time: | 22:50 LT |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk Ic |
| Owner/operator: | 9 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | R1335 |
| MSN: | WS-K |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Heusden, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Honington, Suffolk |
Takeoff at 19:43 LT for a bombing operation to Köln, Germany.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Walter Fenske of the 3./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Eindhoven airfield.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant John Talbot Lovell "Death" Shore MC RAF 39177 [PoW, escaped]
2nd Pilot : Flight Lieutenant James Leslie Robert "Cookie" Long RAFVR 89375 [PoW, died later]
Observer : Sergeant H J Tomkins RAF 755975 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Ronald David Bews RAF 943610 [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Norman David Richard Griffiths RAF 755823 [PoW]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Richard Parkin RAF 940563 [PoW]
On being captured, Shore was taken to Stalag Luft I, Barth, where during a raid in mid September he escaped via a tunnel, ariving back in the U.K via Sweden in late December of that year. Awarded the MC, F/L Shore rose to the rank of W/C and was killed after the war whilst flying a Lincoln.
P/O "Cookie" Long participated in the "Great Escape" and was murdered by Lux of the SS at Breslau on 13-4-44; he is buried in Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery, Poland, plot 8D6
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0978A&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 15 October 1940 | T2464 | 9 Sqn RAF | 6 | near Plathe, Kalbe, Sachsen-Anhalt |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Mar-2019 20:56 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 27-Mar-2019 14:24 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator] |
| 27-Mar-2024 08:43 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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