ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 236031
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Date: | Thursday 6 August 1942 |
Time: | 01:06 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | X3360 |
MSN: | VR-R |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Bedburg-Hau, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:15 hrs for an operation to Essen in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Reinhold Knacke & Unteroffizier Kurt Bundrock of the 1./NJG 1, who were flying a Bf 110 F-4 from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.
All crew members rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=X3360 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
3 September 1942 |
X3711 |
419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF |
5 |
Warnant, Anhée, Namur |
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w/o |
5 October 1942 |
BJ729 |
419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF |
5 |
Meerssenerweg, Maastricht, Limburg |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-May-2020 19:59 |
TigerTimon |
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