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Date: | Saturday 6 July 1940 |
Time: | 03:35 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk IC |
Owner/operator: | 99 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R3170 |
MSN: | LN-G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Oudeweg road, Veerpolder, Haarlem, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Newmarket, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Vickers Wellington Mk.Ic R3170 (LN-G) 99 Squadron, RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed (shot down) on combat operations on 6 July 1940. Of the five crew, one was killed, and the other four were captured and taken as PoWs. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/1026): "Wellington R3170 crashed at Haarlem, The Netherlands, 5-6 July 1940. Sergeant G F Sexton: report of death. Sergeant K A R MacArthur, Sergeant C J Scanlon, Pilot Officer J W P Perkins and Pilot Officer R A G Willis: prisoners of war"
Took off from RAF Newmarket, Suffolk at 21:45 LT on the evening of 5 July 1940 for an operation to Kiel, Germany. Instead, bombed Schiphol airfield in the Netherlands as a "target of opportunity" and was hit by Flak in the process. The pilot performed an emergency landing, but the aircraft was wrecked, and one of the crew was killed.
Crew:
Pilot: Pilot Officer R A G Willis RAF 41766 (Canadian) (PoW)
Second Pilot: Pilot Officer J W P Perkins RAF 42879 (PoW)
Navigator: Sgt. K A R MacArthur RAF 747956 (PoW)
ROp./ Air Gunner: Sgt. C J Scanlon RAF 553514 (PoW)
Air Gunner Gerald Francis Sexton RAF 755373 - killed
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft R1000-R9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1980 p 18)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/1026: 5.https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502892
3.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2619698/sexton,-gerald-francis/ 4.
http://adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzwellington.htm 6.
http://www.beeldbankwo2.nl/detail.jsp?action=detail&recordidx=1 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._75_Squadron_RAF 8.
http://www.beeldbankwo2.nl/cgi-bin/frsiserver.dll/thumbnail/68673-thumb.jpg?frskey=68673 9.
http://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/alliedlossesincidents-alpha-list-s-z.html 10.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-416-wellington-ic-warmond-1-killed 11. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one .
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17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
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09-Mar-2013 19:20 |
Dr. John Smith |
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03-Jun-2013 08:11 |
Nepa |
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30-May-2015 19:04 |
pietrzak |
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pietrzak |
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Cobar |
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04-Jul-2019 15:38 |
TigerTimon |
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07-Oct-2019 18:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
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07-Oct-2019 18:32 |
Dr. John Smith |
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07-Oct-2019 18:35 |
Dr. John Smith |
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18-Aug-2022 21:45 |
Nepa |
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