ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 234438
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| Date: | Tuesday 16 September 1941 |
| Time: | 01:16 LT |
| Type: |  Short Stirling Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 15 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | N6021 |
| MSN: | LS-O |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Hemslingen, Niedersachsen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire |
Mission - Hamburg
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was coned by searchlights and intercepted by the night fighter crew of Unteroffizier Geislinger & Gefreiter Carl of the 6./NJG 1, who had taken off from Wittmund airfield at 00:09 hrs, in Bf 110 D-3 G9+BP. In an attack from 80 metres, the left engines were set ablaze. After some minutes flying in the searchlights, it crashed.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=N6021
Google Maps
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2199432
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2389944
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 14 April 1942 | W7519 | 15 Sqn RAF | 8 | Missing - North Sea |  |
mis |
| 28 August 1943 | EH985 | 15 Sqn RAF | 3 | Hesselberg, Heßdorf, Bayern | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Mar-2020 10:39 | TigerTimon | Added |
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