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Date: | Sunday 30 May 1943 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 428 (Ghost) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | HE319 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea possibly near Vlissingen, Zeeland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Dalton, UK |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Missing during a raid on Barmen-Wuppertal. Possibly shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Rolf Bussmann of the 1./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Gilze-Rijen airfield, the Netherlands. He claimed a Wellington shot down over the North Sea near Vlissingen, Zeeland at 02:50.
Call Sign: NA-Y
Takeoff time: 22:32
Crew:-
Pilot : Warrant Officer Class II Frank Lee Shelnutt RCAF R/102895 [Killed]
Sergeant John Frederick Langley RAFVR 1080691 [Killed]
Flight Sergeant Harry MacMillan RCAF R/121431 [Killed]
Flight Sergeant John Glenford Alexander Marshall RCAF R/129522 [Killed]
Sergeant David Crawford Smith RAFVR 1559352 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=HE319 - Air Britain: RAF Aircraft HA100 - HZ999, published 1989
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Dec-2011 09:15 |
Uli Elch |
Added |
08-Jan-2012 08:57 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Location, Departure airport] |
30-May-2018 19:15 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
14-Oct-2018 15:47 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
22-Jun-2022 22:19 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
19-Mar-2024 15:40 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |