ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 226636
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Date: | Monday 30 June 1941 |
Time: | 01:52 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W5459 |
MSN: | KO-L |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hamburg-Altenwerder -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Marham, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:14 hrs for an operation to Bremen.
Coned by searchlights and shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Walter Ehle of the Stab II./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Stade airfield.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W5459
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
27 July 1942 |
X3412 |
115 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Wadden Sea N of Butjadingen, Niedersachsen |
|
w/o |
5 September 1942 |
BJ771 |
115 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Papenburg-Obenende, Ems, Niedersachsen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-Jun-2019 08:55 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
28-Jun-2019 12:08 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
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