ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 234723
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Date: | Tuesday 30 September 1941 |
Time: | 02:58 LT |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 7 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W7433 |
MSN: | MG-U |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea 40 miles northeast of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:00 hrs for a bombing operation to Stettin (modern Poland) & failed to return. The aircraft was last plotted 40 miles northeast of Lowestoft. Three crew members rest at cemeteries in Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands:
Pilot W/O. A. Fletcher 565697 RAF / Runnymede Memorial; panel 35
Second Pilot Sgt. D.E. Coyle 1101054 RAF / Hoek van Holland cemetery; grave F 26
Flight Engineer Sgt. J. Tucker 636626 RAF / Noordwijk cemetery; grave 1 4
Observer F/O. W.H.J. Thompson 79575 RAF / Hoek van Holland cemetery; grave F 27
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Sgt. A.E. Burrows 751057 RAF / buried Derby (Nottingham Road) Cemetery; grave F 592
Front Gunner Sgt. H.H. Mansfield 751557 RAF / Runnymede Memorial; panel 48
Rear Gunner Sgt. H.J. Walker 611566 RAF / Runnymede Memorial; panel 54
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1280B&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
14 January 1942 |
N3672 |
7 Sqn RAF |
0 |
RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England |
|
unk |
9 November 1942 |
BF387 |
7 Sqn RAF |
7 |
North Sea off Sylt island, Schleswig-Holstein |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Apr-2020 18:27 |
TigerTimon |
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