Date:	Sunday 17 August 1941
Time:	02:30 LT
Type:	Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V
Owner/operator:	10 Sqn RAF
Registration:	Z6805
MSN:	ZA-G
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Winterswijk - Kotten, Gelderland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Leeming
Destination airport:	RAF Leeming

Narrative:
Operation - Köln, Germany. Took off from RAF Leeming at 22:03 hrs.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and at 01:43 attacked by Oberleutnant Wolfgang Thimmig of the 2./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield. At 02:30 hrs, it crashed.

Sgt Calvert is reported to have been in May 1942 and was shot by civil Police at Dresden on 20 May 1942. He is buried in the 1939-1945 War Cemetery at Berlin.

Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant Basil S Craske RAF 754886 [PoW]
Sergeant Harold Phillip Calvert MiD RAFVR 903068 [PoW, died later]
Sergeant John Charles W King RAF 929124 [PoW]
Sergeant A Bruce A Robertson RAF 53811 [PoW]

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
06-May-2016 07:54	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
02-Nov-2018 18:58	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
13-Mar-2020 17:40	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
13-Aug-2022 10:36	Anon.	Updated [Narrative, ]
08-Nov-2024 07:37	Rob Davis	Updated [Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, ]