Date:	Monday 30 June 1941
Time:	02:43 LT
Type:	Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V
Owner/operator:	78 Sqn RAF
Registration:	Z6664
MSN:	EY-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea NNW of Ameland, Friesland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Middleton St George
Destination airport:	RAF Middleton St George

Narrative:
The crew were briefed to attack Bremen. The ATD of the aircraft from RAF Middleton St. George, County Durham was 22:43 hrs.

After departure nothing further was heard from Z6664/EY-? The aircraft was lost without trace. Over the North Sea, it was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Paul Gildner of the 4./NJG 1, who was flying Do 215 B-5 G9+NM from Leeuwarden airfield.

Pilot Sgt R.S. Green + NKG
2nd Pilot Sgt E.R. Ingram + NKG
Observer Sgt K.I. Jones + NKG
Wireless Operator Sgt A.W. Adams + NKG

The crew have no known grave and are all commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

No record of a fifth crew member exists in the ORB. It is therefore assumed that either the Observer or Wireless Operator would have doubled up as an Air Gunner
Flt Sgt L Hird (NKG) was the 5th member of the crew. He rests in a cemetery in Germany.

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1072D&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nobody Unprepared - History of 78 Sqn Vernon Holland
4 Group Bomber Command - Chris Ward
Chorley's BCL
Royal Air Force bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 (Volume 2) Page 78.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

22 July 1940	N1487	78 Sqn RAF	5	near Sprakel (Münster) and Gimbte (Greven), Nordrhein-Westfalen		w/o
2 October 1940	P4964	78 Sqn RAF	5	Hessenweg road, Hummelo, Gelderland		w/o
9 January 1941	T4203	78 Sqn RAF	5	Ubbergen, Gelderland		w/o
19 June 1941	Z6560	78 Sqn RAF	4	North Sea 90 km northeast of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England		w/o
3 July 1941	Z6558	78 Sqn RAF	4	Itteren, Maastricht, Limburg		w/o
8 November 1941	Z9151	78 Sqn RAF	1	Rhinow, Brandenburg		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
18-Oct-2013 19:43	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
01-May-2016 19:11	Red Dragon	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
28-Jun-2019 07:53	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
16-Feb-2020 17:48	Inkey	Updated [Narrative]
12-Jun-2022 09:58	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]