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| Date: | Tuesday 19 August 1941 |
| Time: | 03:03 claim |
| Type: |  Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | 51 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | Z6569 |
| MSN: | MH-S |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Vliermaalroot, Kortessem, Limburg -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Dishforth, North Yorkshire |
Takeoff at 21:51 hrs for an operation to Köln in Germany.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights for 3 minutes & intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hermann Reese of the 2./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Harold Brooke Robertshaw RAF 63444 (NCO:995860 : Commission Gazetted Friday 02 May, 1941) [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Leslie Arthur Evetts RAFVR 952745 [Fatal Injury]
Sergeant Reginald A C Hooper RAF 743798 [PoW]
Sergeant John Learned Ives RCAF R/92827 [Evaded, died later]
Sergeant Alan Gore Trites RCAF R/64808 [PoW]
Sergeant John Learned Ives managed to evade capture and returned to England in December, but was killedin a 271 RCAF Sqdn Dakota incident, 28th April 1945, remembered at Runnymede.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/whitley-bij-vliermaalroot
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=Z6569
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database http://robdavistelford.co.uk/webspace/raf_bc
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Mar-2020 17:24 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 18-Aug-2022 06:41 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
| 23-Mar-2025 07:43 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
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