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Date: | Friday 4 July 1941 |
Time: | 00:34 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk IC |
Owner/operator: | 301 (Ziemi Pomorskiej) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R1492 |
MSN: | GR-M |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Eerste Exloërmond, Drenthe -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Syerston |
Destination airport: | RAF Syerston |
Narrative:Mission-Bremen. Took off from RAF Syerston. Shot down by a night-fighter (Oblt Helmut Lent 4./NJG1, flying Bf 110 D-3 G9+FM from Leeuwarden airfield) and crashed 0034 hrs at Eerste Exloermond (Drenthe) 18 km NNE of Emmen Holland. Gp Capt Stachon was attached to SHQ Swinderby and he is buried in the Polish Field of Honour at Breda.
Crew
Fg Off Butkiewicza (POW)
Gp Capt B Stachon (KIA)
Fg Off J Palka (POW)
Sgt A Dydo (POW)
Sgt D Dziegiel (POW)
Sgt Z Hzikowski (POW)
Sources:
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 83.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
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History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
3 July 1942 |
Z1314 |
301 (Ziemi Pomorskiej) Sqn RAF |
1 |
farm at the Koesteeg road, Borger, Drenthe |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
24-Apr-2016 18:07 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
18-Oct-2018 16:59 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
02-Jul-2019 07:48 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Cn, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |