ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52921
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| Date: | Saturday 11 April 1942 |
| Time: | 00:41 |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 301 (Ziemi Pomorskiej) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | Z1333 |
| MSN: | GR-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Broekkant, Beers, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Hemswell |
Takeoff at 22:07 hrs for an operation to Essen in Germany.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights for 9 minutes & shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Werner Streib of the Stab I./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield.
The entire crew survived. Five crew members were taken prisoner. Sgt M. Zawodny managed to escape and via Gibraltar he returned to the United Kingdom:
Pilot: P-1631/783511 Jerzy Wasilewski - PoW Stalag Luft 3 Sagan & Belaria. PoW Number 133
2nd Pilot: P-1318 Fg Off Edmund Burszewski - PoW Stalag Luft 3 Sagan & Belaria. PoW Number 112
Navigator: P-0743 Sqn Ldr Kazimierz Franciszek Przykorski PoW Stalag Luft 3 Sagan & Belaria. PoW Number 127
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 792065 Sgt Marian Henryk Zawodny - Evaded
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: P-0854 Sgt Edward Mucha - PoW Stalag Luft 3 Sagan & Belaria. PoW Number 661
Air Gunner: 792864 Sgt Leon Blach - Stalag 4B Muhlberg (Elbe). PoW Number 138.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Google Maps
http://bhic.nl/?id=13582
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1473&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Bomber Command Losses 1942
Krzystek's List
RAF Prisoners of War
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.evasioncomete.org/fzawodnma.html&prev=search
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 30 June 1941 | R1373 | 301 (Ziemi Pomorskiej) Sqn RAF | 1 | near Warmsen, Niedersachsen |  |
w/o |
| 6 June 1942 | Z1467 | 301 (Ziemi Pomorskiej) Sqn RAF | 6 | Molenweg road, Slootdorp, Noord-Holland | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 18-Apr-2014 16:53 | gerard57 | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Apr-2014 21:45 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 19-Feb-2015 18:07 | Jixon | Updated [Operator] |
| 10-Apr-2017 07:24 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Dec-2017 18:54 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Oct-2018 17:02 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 17-Apr-2020 17:47 | TigerTimon | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Apr-2020 17:47 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 17-Apr-2020 17:51 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
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