ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 236359
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Date: | Saturday 5 September 1942 |
Time: | 03:48 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BJ771 |
MSN: | KO-L |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Papenburg-Obenende, Ems, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Marham, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - Bremen.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was hit by heavy (schwere) Luftwaffe Flak and by the Marine-Flak-Abteilung 236.
All five were taken prisoner of war.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BJ771 https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/10329005
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
30 June 1941 |
W5459 |
115 Sqn RAF |
6 |
Hamburg-Altenwerder |
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w/o |
27 July 1942 |
X3412 |
115 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Wadden Sea N of Butjadingen, Niedersachsen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-May-2020 07:27 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
27-Jun-2022 09:33 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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