Incident Vickers Wellington Mk IV Z1326 ,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 205831
 
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Date:Friday 3 July 1942
Time:night
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk IV
Owner/operator:300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration: Z1326
MSN: BH-B
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Aircraft missing
Location:North Sea 25 miles east of Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase: Unknown
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Ingham, UK (takeoff at 23:15 hrs)
Destination airport:operation - Bremen, Germany
Narrative:
While returning to base the aircraft was ditched into the North Sea 25 miles East of Mablethorpe. They were rescued by a merchant vessel after 2 hours in their dinghy.

Crew
Pilot: P-1910/780412 Plt Off Maksymilian Kubacki
Observer:P-0230 Fg Off Walenty Zubrycki
Wireless Operator: 793221 Sgt Karol Germasinski
Air Gunner:780109 Sgt Feliks Lazowski
Air Gunner: P-2647 / 794274 Sgt Edmund Zygmunt Zbigniew English

Sources:

Krzystek's List.
Bomber Command Losses 1942
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=Z1326

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
11 July 1941 R1184 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF 0 North Sea 2 km WNW of Hoek van Holland, Zuid-Holland w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
08-Feb-2018 16:25 Red Dragon Added
08-Feb-2018 16:26 Red Dragon Updated [Source]
08-Feb-2018 16:27 Red Dragon Updated [Date]
17-Feb-2018 17:09 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport]
05-Feb-2020 20:29 stehlik49 Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]
05-May-2020 18:56 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source]

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