Accident Vickers Wellington Mk X HE183,
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Date:Friday 14 May 1943
Time:03:07
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk X
Owner/operator:431 (Iroquois) Sqn RCAF
Registration: HE183
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Aircraft missing
Location:North Sea 40 km west of Castricum, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Bourn
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Shot down by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Heinz Vinke of the 11./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Bergen airfield.

Target: Bochum
Call Sign: SE-J
Takeoff time: 23:55
Crew:
S/Ldr. T. Marshall RAF
F/O D. Gooderham RAF
P/O D. Coales RAF
Sgt A. Quaile RAF
F/O D. MacMillan RCAF

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://www.backtonormandy.org/component/mtree/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/wellington/18709-HE1831943-05-14.html
http://6bombergroup.ca/May43/May13~14.html
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft HA100 - HZ999, published 1989

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
30-Dec-2011 10:36 Uli Elch Added
08-Jan-2012 08:30 Uli Elch Updated [Location, Departure airport]
12-May-2018 14:48 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
14-Oct-2018 16:08 Nepa Updated [Operator, Operator]
12-Jan-2019 10:27 TigerTimon Updated [Narrative]

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