ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 208919
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Date: | Thursday 8 April 1943 |
Time: | 23:15 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 420 (Snowy Owl) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | MS479 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Essen-Borbeck, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St George |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Hit by Flak.
Target: Duisburg
Call Sign: PT-F
Takeoff time: 21:15
Crew:
pilot F/O WA Walkinshaw
nav P/O KW MacDonald
ba W/O DF Evans
wop W/O F Bemi
ag W/O DG Rispin
All are now interred Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://www.backtonormandy.org/component/mtree/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/wellington/19269-MS4791943-04-09.html http://www.aquatax.ca/Wellingtons.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Apr-2018 07:51 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
07-Apr-2018 07:56 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location] |
09-Oct-2018 20:14 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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