ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52950
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Date: | Thursday 26 March 1942 |
Time: | 22:55 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 12 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W5371 |
MSN: | PH-X |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Monnickendijk dyke at Monnickendam, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Binbrook |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 20:26 hrs local time for a bombing operation to Essen in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weissenfeld of the 5./NJG 2, who had taken off from Bergen airfield.
All of the six crew were killed.
F/Sgt Lowe, and Sgt’s Parsons, Lea and Stanley are buried at Bergen General Cemetery, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. Sgt’s Pooley and Dove are buried in the Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery.
Sources:
http://www.626-squadron.co.uk/willem25.htm Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1452&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
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30-Jan-2015 15:44 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
25-Mar-2017 09:34 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
19-Nov-2017 19:21 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Operator] |
18-Oct-2018 19:21 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
15-Apr-2020 18:20 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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