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Date: | Saturday 5 September 1942 |
Time: | 02:53 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BJ663 |
MSN: | KO-N |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Altenrheine, Rheine, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Marham |
Destination airport: | RAF Marham |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:59 hrs local time for an operation to Bremen.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Herbert Lütje of the 8./NJG 1, who was flying Bf 110 F-4 G9+AS from Twente airfield in the Netherlands.
All five rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BJ663 Google Maps
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft BA100 - BZ999, published 2006
- Lost Bombers
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
7 May 1942 |
X3466 |
115 Sqn RAF |
2 |
Mr Forget's Farm at Montigny-le-Franc, Aisne département |
|
w/o |
2 March 1943 |
BK495 |
115 Sqn RAF |
5 |
North Sea 5 km W of Terschelling, Friesland |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-Aug-2011 12:21 |
Uli Elch |
Added |
25-May-2020 07:54 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative] |