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Date: | Thursday 29 April 1943 |
Time: | 00:08 |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 75 (NZ) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BK807 |
MSN: | AA:M |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Baltic Sea off Lolland, 4 km south of Kappel -
Denmark
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Newmarket |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Coned by searchlights for 2 minutes, hit by heavy Flak of the MAA 508.
Operation: Gardening – mine-laying operations
Target area: Fehmarn Belt
Call Sign: AA-M
Takeoff time: 20:41
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Douglas Vincent Hamer RAFVR 141713 [Killed] (NCO:963403 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 13 April, 1943)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant George Len Lennox RAFVR 950013 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant Desmond Ray Ross RNZAF NZ/411451 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Ross Cameron Buckley RNZAF NZ/411206 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant William Leslie Fred Brian RNZAF NZ/411737 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Harry Pears Holme RAFVR 1301281 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Malcolm Edward John Shogren RNZAF NZ/415375 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
http://www.flensted.eu.com/19430044.shtml Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-Apr-2018 10:44 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
27-Oct-2018 20:14 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |