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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 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| 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.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Edward John Douglas Guild RAFVR 62273 (NCO:914281 : Commission Gazetted Friday 11 April, 1941) [Killed]
2nd Pilot : Pilot Officer Hedley James Allen Dyer DFM MiD RAF 62253 (NCO:741460 : Commission Gazetted Friday 11 April, 1941) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Trevor Henry Barton Jones RAFVR 902910 [Killed]
Observer : Flight Sergeant Walter Cameron Mackenzie RCAF R/60123 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Arthur Needham RAFVR 1306694 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Alexander Dempsey Wallace RAFVR 995698 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant F C Snead RCAF R/58848 [Killed]
All lie at the Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany (52.890363 / 9.916912)
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
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Mar-2020 10:39 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 03-Dec-2024 07:55 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
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