ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 236134
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Date: | Thursday 20 August 1942 |
Time: | 23:53 LT |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W7573 |
MSN: | HA-V |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Brodersby, Schleswig-Holstein -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Downham Market, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - Gardening (mine-laying).
The aircraft was coned by searchlights of the Marine-Flak-Abteilung 211 and hit by light Flak & MG fire of aforementioned unit and light Flak of the 1./leichte Flak-Abteilung 828.
All seven rest in the Kiel War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W7573 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
19 August 1942 |
W7618 |
218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
4 |
North Sea west of Esbjerg, Syddanmark |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-May-2020 10:59 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
19-Mar-2021 20:57 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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