Accident Vickers Wellington Mk III BJ688,
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Date:Saturday 29 August 1942
Time:00:12 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk III
Owner/operator:115 Sqn RAF
Registration: BJ688
MSN: KO-R
Fatalities:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Eich, Rheinland-Pfalz -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 20:26 hrs local time for an operation to Nürnberg in Bayern.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Ludwig Meister of the 8./NJG 4, who was flying a Bf 110 from Mainz-Finthen airfield.

All five rest in the Durnbach War Cemetery.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BJ688
Google Maps

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
31 May 1942 Z1614 115 Sqn RAF 5 Tichelovenstraat street at Wijchmaal, Peer, Limburg w/o
29 July 1942 Z1605 115 Sqn RAF 5 near Hohn, Schleswig-Holstein w/o
22 November 1942 BK206 115 Sqn RAF 4 Chalandry, Aisne département w/o

Revision history:

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