Date:	Sunday 17 August 1941
Time:	02:40 LT
Type:	Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V
Owner/operator:	10 Sqn RAF
Registration:	Z6794
MSN:	ZA-?
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Lottum, Limburg -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Leeming
Destination airport:	RAF Leeming

Narrative:
Operation - Köln, Germany. Took off from RAF Leeming at 22:09 hrs.
The aircraft was caught in searchlights & intercepted by night fighter pilot Leutnant Hans-Dieter Frank of the Stab I./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield.
It is reported that at least four of the crew bailed out, but Sgt Sewell's parachute failed to deploy. He is buried along with Sgt Lager, in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.

Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant Eric Harry Lager RAFVR 921758 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Vernon Young Hodgson Sewell RCAF R/54577 [Killed]
Sergeant Jack Edward Fulkerson RCAF R/56904 [PoW]
Sergeant Jacques Washington Meyers RCAF R/59567 [PoW]
Sergeant Sam S Shapiro RCAF R/71779 [PoW]

Casualties lie at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany (51.740880 / 6.082017)

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
06-May-2016 06:27	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
02-Nov-2018 18:57	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
13-Mar-2020 17:10	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
13-Mar-2020 17:11	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, ]
15-Sep-2024 19:10	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]