ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53592
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Date: | Thursday 17 April 1941 |
Time: | 23:39 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk IC |
Owner/operator: | 311 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R1599 |
MSN: | KX-J |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Baexem, Limburg -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF East Wretham |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 20:55 LT for an operation to Berlin.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Werner Streib of the Stab I./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield; crashed at 2339 hrs at Baexem, Limburg.
The crew were first buried at Venlo, but since 1945 their remains have been taken to Jonkerbos War Cemetery:
Pilot - Sgt Frantisek Kracmer KIA Czechoslovakia
Co-Pilot - F/O Frank Sixta KIA Czechoslovakia
Navigator - F/O Vladimir Kubicek KIA Czechoslovakia
Wireless op - P/O Vaclav Kosulic KIA Czechoslovakia
Air gunner - Sgt Vaclav Stetka KIA Czechoslovakia
Air gunner - Sgt Rudolf Lifcic KIA Czechoslovakia
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0998&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= https://www.facebook.com/leudalmonument/photos/ms.597759020310235.597758470310290.597758273643643.597758076976996.bps.a.597255827027221/597758470310290/?type=1&relevant_count=2 Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 44.
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