ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52436
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Date: | Sunday 6 December 1942 |
Time: | 12:32 |
Type: | Lockheed Ventura Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 21 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | AE940 |
MSN: | YH-T |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Philips factory building 'SQ' Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant. -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Methwold, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Ventura AE940/T: Took off at 11:27 hrs for Operation Oyster’, a pin-point daylight raid on the Philips electrical works at Eindhoven NL. 06/12/1942
Shot down by enemy Flak, crashing 12:32hrs in the target area.
Crew:
F/Lt.(82499) Kenneth Samuel SMITH (pilot) RAFVR - killed
F/Lt.(Aus.402450) Wallace MARTIN DFC (nav.) RAAF - killed
Sgt.(961670) Walter Percy GREGORY (WOp/AG) RAFVR - killed
Sgt.(1378025) Arthur Thomas MILTON (AG) RAFVR - killed
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl. 1.ORB
2.CWGC
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
05-Dec-2017 16:21 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
11-Jan-2018 15:00 |
XindelX |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
05-Nov-2020 19:45 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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