ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 236570
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Date: | Thursday 17 September 1942 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 12 OTU RAF |
Registration: | BJ730 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 20:26 hrs local time on the 16th, for an operation against the Krupp works at Essen in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was damaged by Flak of the 7. Flak-Division and crashed. All five rest in the Rheinberg War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BJ730 Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-May-2020 20:27 |
TigerTimon |
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30-May-2020 20:29 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
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