ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 211638
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Date: | Sunday 30 May 1943 |
Time: | 00:54 |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 149 (East India) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BF507 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Sugar refinery Dormagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Lakenheath |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Hit by Flak of the 7. Flak-Division.
Target: Barmen-Wuppertal
Call Sign: OJ-S
Takeoff time: 23:02
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Alfred William Flack RNZAF NZ/413833 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Herbert Lloyd RAF 621384 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer James Shepherd RAF 146166 [Killed] (NCO:656494 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 20 July, 1943)
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Frederick Charles Detley RAFVR 1085002 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Thomas Benjamin Morris RAFVR 1325871 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Warrant Officer Class II Richard Walter Stanley RCAF R/95347 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Warrant Officer Class II Harry Sponsler RCAF R/122267 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BF507 Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-May-2018 07:14 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
28-Jun-2018 13:18 |
ehren69 |
Updated [Location] |
18-Oct-2018 13:58 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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