Accident Vickers Wellington Mk III X3226 ,
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Date:Sunday 26 April 1942
Time:night
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk III
Owner/operator:9 Sqn RAF
Registration: X3226
MSN: WS-
Fatalities:Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage: Aircraft missing
Location:- missing - -
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Honington, Suffolk
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 22:30 hrs on the 25th for an operation against Rostock in Germany; failed to return.

37502 Sqn Ldr Douglas Holbrook Holmes AFC - Runnymede Memorial Panel 65.
1254454 Sgt Philip William Clement Flannery - Runnymede Memorial Panel 83.
749388 Flt Sgt William Burns Richmond - Runnymede Memorial Panel 75.
620700 Flt Sgt James North - Runnymede Memorial Panel 75.
751937 Flt Sgt Richard Ballantyne - Runnymede Memorial Panel 73.
524132 Flt Sgt Walter Lock - Runnymede Memorial Panel 75.

Sources:

Bomber Command Losses 1942
CWGC
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Aircrew Remembered

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
27 April 1941 R1281 9 Sqn RAF 0 Arrien, municipality Ommen, Overijssel w/o
13 August 1941 R1513 9 Sqn RAF 6 Weser river mouth near Weddewarden, Bremerhaven w/o
15 February 1942 X3398 9 Sqn RAF 5 Off Clacton on Sea unk
9 March 1942 X3641 9 Sqn RAF 6 North Sea north of Noord-Holland mis
9 March 1942 X3643 9 Sqn RAF 6 Harleston 16 miles South of Norwich w/o
9 March 1942 X3411 9 Sqn RAF 5 ditched in the North Sea w/o
6 April 1942 X3415 9 Sqn RAF 6 railway station of Sechtem, Bornheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
10 April 1942 X3702 9 Sqn RAF 6 near Nievenheim (Zinkhüttenweg), Dormagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
13 April 1942 X3722 9 Sqn RAF 5 Moers-Vinn, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
23 April 1942 X3358 9 Sqn RAF 1 Dormagen-Hackenbroich, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
23 April 1942 X3759 9 Sqn RAF 5 Sapiston Suffolk, 67 miles SE of Thetford, Norfolk, England w/o
29 April 1942 X3716 9 Sqn RAF 6 Holbøl, Kruså, Syddanmark w/o
9 May 1942 X3369 9 Sqn RAF 5 near Rostock, Mecklenburg w/o
18 May 1942 X3276 9 Sqn RAF 5 Missing mis
31 May 1942 X3469 9 Sqn RAF 1 Retie, Antwerp w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
12-Dec-2017 13:43 Red Dragon Added
12-Nov-2018 14:58 Nepa Updated [Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]
22-Apr-2022 07:44 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative]
22-Apr-2022 07:48 TigerTimon Updated [Narrative]

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