Accident Vickers Wellington Mk X MS479,
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Date:Thursday 8 April 1943
Time:23:15
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
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/timeContributorUpdates
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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