ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53313
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| Date: | Tuesday 8 July 1941 |
| Time: | 00:55 |
| Type: |  Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | 77 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | Z6799 |
| MSN: | KN-? |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | a wood near Orvelte, Drenthe -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Topcliffe, North Yorkshire |
| RAF Topcliffe |
Mission-Osnabrück. Took off from RAF Topcliffe at 2230 hrs. Shot down by a night fighter (Oberleutnant Helmut Lent of the 4./NJG 1, who was flying Bf 110 G9+FL from Leeuwarden airfield) and crashed 0055 hrs into a wood near Orvelte (Drenthe), 17 km SSE of Assen Holland.
Those who died are buried in Westerbork General Cemetery:
Flt Lt Mcl Petley DFC (KIA)
Sgt G Lightley (KIA)
Sgt K W M Christopher (KIA)
Sgt R L Luce (POW)
Sgt J H Wilson (KIA)
Sources:
http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1941%20sec_tcm5-7282.pdf
Royal Air Force Bomber Command losses 1941 Page 85.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 7 September 1941 | Z6668 | 77 Sqn RAF | 5 | Quakenbrück, Niedersachsen |  |
w/o |
| 30 September 1941 | Z9150 | 77 Sqn RAF | 5 | near the Levensauer Hochbrücke at Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | |
w/o |
| 30 November 1941 | Z9299 | 77 Sqn RAF | 4 | Georgsheil, Südbrookmerland, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 27 December 1941 | Z9226 | 77 Sqn RAF | 5 | Viersen, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 27 December 1941 | Z6956 | 77 Sqn RAF | 1 | southeast of Kempen, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 13 March 1942 | Z9312 | 77 Sqn RAF | 5 | North Sea |  |
mis |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 01-May-2016 18:07 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Nov-2018 14:13 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
| 08-Jul-2019 10:59 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
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