Accident Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V Z6956,
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Date:Saturday 27 December 1941
Time:21:25 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic whtl model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V
Owner/operator:77 Sqn RAF
Registration: Z6956
MSN: KN-?
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:southeast of Kempen, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 16:44 hrs local time for an operation to Düsseldorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Frank & Obergefreiter Urban of the Stab I./NJG 1, who were flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.

Sergeant W.A. Blackburn rests at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. The others were taken prisoner of war.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=Z6956
Google Maps

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
8 July 1941 Z6799 77 Sqn RAF 4 a wood near Orvelte, Drenthe w/o
7 September 1941 Z6668 77 Sqn RAF 5 Quakenbrück, Niedersachsen w/o
30 September 1941 Z9150 77 Sqn RAF 5 near the Levensauer Hochbrücke at Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein w/o
30 November 1941 Z9299 77 Sqn RAF 4 Georgsheil, Südbrookmerland, Niedersachsen w/o
13 March 1942 Z9312 77 Sqn RAF 5 North Sea mis

Revision history:

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