ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 236367
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Date: | Monday 7 September 1942 |
Time: | 04:41 claim |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 12 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BJ691 |
MSN: | PH-T |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea -
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 00:59 hrs local time for an operation to Duisburg in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Dr. Horst Patuschka of the 7./NJG 2, who was flying a Ju 88 C-6 from Gilze-Rijen airfield in the Netherlands.
All five are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BJ691
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
9 January 1942 |
W5356 |
12 Sqn RAF |
3 |
NW of Wythhall 5 miles NNE of Redditch Worcestershire |
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Revision history:
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25-May-2020 10:29 |
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