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Date: | Monday 28 July 1941 |
Time: | 03:46 claim |
Type: | Airspeed Oxford Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 2 FTS RAF |
Registration: | V3685 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 2 miles northeast of RAF Akeman Street, Oxfordshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire (EGVN) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Whilst on a student's first solo night sortie, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Dr. Lothar Bisang of the 2./NJG 2, who was flying Ju 88 C-4 R4+KK from Gilze-Rijen airfield in the Netherlands.
20-year-old Leading Aircraftman Ralph Stanley Smith did not survive and rests at Houghton-le-Spring cemetery in Durham.
Sources:
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft T1000 - V9999, published 1997
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?3330-410728-Unaccounted-airmen-28-7-1941 https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2838427/smith,-ralph-stanley/ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Jan-2012 13:01 |
Uli Elch |
Added |
10-Feb-2020 21:19 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |