Accident Vickers Wellington Mk IV Z1319,
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Date:Monday 27 July 1942
Time:01:15
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk IV
Owner/operator:142 Sqn RAF
Registration: Z1319
MSN: QT-W
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Horst, Schleswig-Holstein -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Grimsby
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 22:45 hrs for an operation to Hamburg.
The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter of the 5./NJG 3 based at Schleswig airfield; crashed at 01:15 hrs at Horst.
Those who perished rest at the Hamburg cemetery:

Pilot:R/37635 Sqn Ldr Charles Lealand Olsson PoW Stalag Luft 3 Sagan & Belaria. PoW Number 581
Observer:J/3765 Fg Off J A Goring RCAF PoW Stalag Luft 3 Sagan & Belaria. PoW Number 571.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:R/54037 P/O William Scott Findlay RCAF - Hamburg Cemetery 6A. E. 14.
Air Gunner:R/65152 Flt Sgt William Alfred Penney - Hamburg Cemetery 6A. E. 15.
Air Gunner:1382550 Sgt A H Collinson PoW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. PoW Number 25049.

Sources:

www.home.arcor.de/loenne1/Absturz/Horst.htm
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
Google Maps
142 Squadron
CWGC
RAF Prisoners of War

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
7 April 1942 Z1205 142 Sqn RAF 6 Hürth, Nordrhein-Westfalen (probably) w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
04-Aug-2014 19:19 gerard57 Added
15-Aug-2014 09:07 Unitex Updated [Operator]
21-Feb-2018 21:30 Red Dragon Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
18-Oct-2018 14:18 Nepa Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
22-Nov-2018 18:28 Anon. Updated [Narrative]
09-May-2020 17:13 TigerTimon Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]

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