ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52621
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Date: | Monday 10 August 1942 |
Time: | 03:07 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 460 Sqn RAAF |
Registration: | Z1463 |
MSN: | UV-L |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Remmelinkdijk road, Keijenborg, Gelderland -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Breighton |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 00:10 hrs local time for an operation to Osnabrück in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Reinhold Knacke & Unteroffizier Kurt Bundrock of the 1./NJG 1, who were flying a Bf 110 F-4 from Venlo airfield.
All five rest in the Hengelo (Gelderland) cemetery:
Pilot / F/Sgt. J.A. Finlay 403175 RAAF / grave 1
Observer / W/O. N. Dan 403561 RAAF / grave 4
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner / F/Sgt. S.B. Goord 39099 RNzAF / grave 2
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner / Sgt. R.A. Ponton 401080 RAAF / grave 5
Air Gunner / F/Sgt. K.A. Smith 402832 RAAF / grave 3
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1769&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
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7 May 1942 |
Z1254 |
460 Sqn RAAF |
5 |
just north of Mannheim-Waldhof; Baden-Württemberg |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
14-Aug-2017 15:10 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
23-Oct-2018 19:30 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
15-May-2020 09:51 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
06-Aug-2022 08:17 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Embed code, Category] |
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