Date:	Thursday 2 April 1942
Time:	night
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk III
Owner/operator:	57 Sqn RAF
Registration:	Z1565
MSN:	DX-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	between Wasserlos and Hörstein, south of Alzenau; Bayern -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Feltwell
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off at 20:55 hrs local time for a bombing operation against rail junctions at Hanau-Lohr in Hessen.
The aircraft failed to return due to the German defences.
Those who died were intially buried at Hanau. After the Second World War, the deceased were reburied at Dürnbach War Cemetery:


Pilot: 404936 Sgt William John Patterson - Dürnbach War Cemetery 5. D. 26.
Pilot: R/54303 Flt Sgt Arthur Allen Bussell RCAF -Durnbach War Cemetery 5. D. 24.
Observer: 1053676 Sgt Robert Cecil Roberts - Dürnbach War Cemetery 5. D. 27.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: R/64633 Flt Sgt William Mann Fraser RCAF - Dürnbach War Cemetery 5. D. 25.
Air Gunner: 1205877 Sgt Francis Henry Miller - Dürnbach War Cemetery 5. D. 28
Air Gunner: 751040 Sgt A Lees PoW Stalag Luft 3 Sagan & Belaria PoW Number 24820

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RAF Prisoners of War
bomber Command Losses 1942
"and in the morning" 57 Squadron Royal Air Force - Barry Hope. ISBN-13: 978-1-911255-11-6
Google Maps
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

16 July 1941	R1624	57 Sqn RAF	6	near the Veldstraat road, Bocholt, Limburg		w/o
2 March 1942	X3748	57 Sqn RAF	2	Sprendlingen near Bad Kreuznach		w/o
9 April 1942	X3757	57 Sqn RAF	6	North Sea 20km N of Vlieland, Friesland		mis
18 April 1942	X3478	57 Sqn RAF	0	Mulsum, Kutenholz, Niedersachsen		w/o
18 April 1942	X3542	57 Sqn RAF	3	near the Marienhof, Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein		w/o
29 April 1942	X3640	57 Sqn RAF	5	park of Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines 78		w/o
Mid-air collision
18 May 1942	DV806	57 Sqn RAF	0	Sea 200yds off Dungeness		mis
31 May 1942	X3387	57 Sqn RAF	0	Berner's Heath Range near Lakenheath, England		w/o
2 June 1942	DV816	57 Sqn RAF	0	Westerschelde estuary NW of Wemeldinge, Zeeland		w/o
3 June 1942	X9787	57 Sqn RAF	5	north of Gildehaus, GB, Niedersachsen		w/o
6 June 1942	HF915	57 Sqn RAF	5	North Sea		w/o
23 June 1942	X3758	57 Sqn RAF	5	presumed lost over the sea - Niedersachsen		mis
30 June 1942	Z1578	57 Sqn RAF	6	North Sea		mis
30 June 1942	Z1618	57 Sqn RAF	3	North Sea, off Dutch coast		mis
22 July 1942	X3584	57 Sqn RAF	5	Missing		mis

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-Nov-2014 16:00	gerard57	Added
12-Feb-2015 13:52	Gagarin	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
27-Nov-2017 16:34	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
07-Nov-2018 19:19	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
31-Mar-2022 16:32	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]