ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 166174
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| Date: | Wednesday 13 September 1944 |
| Time: | 22:50 |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk XVI |
| Owner/operator: | 692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | MM126 |
| MSN: | P3-F |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 7 km south of Linum (Fehrbellin), Brandenburg. -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Gransden Lodge, Cambridgeshire |
Mosquito MM126/F: Took off at 20:46 hrs for a Night bombing operation over Berlin. 13/09/1944
The aircraft was illuminated by searchlights and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Egbert Jaacks of the I./Nachtjagdgruppe 10.
Cause of Mosquito loss in OKL Crash Reports for 13.9.1944 given as ‘shot down by night fighter, achieved in co-operation with searchlight, crashed with full bomb load’.
Crew:-
F/O (174290) Gwilyn Rhys THOMAS (pilot) RAFVR - killed (NCO:1576626 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 16 May, 1944)
F/O (147507) John Herbert ROSBOTTOM (nav.) RAFVR - killed (NCO:1116780 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 03 August, 1943)
Sources:
1. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list
2. ORB 692 Sqdn RAF
3. http://www.156squadron.com/display_newpff_roll.asp.
4. CWGC
5. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 13-May-2014 08:36 | Nepa | Added |
| 26-Aug-2015 09:43 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 15-Apr-2016 20:04 | Nepa | Updated [Cn, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Apr-2019 07:16 | Nepa | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Narrative, Operator] |
| 08-Mar-2021 18:56 | TigerTimon | Updated [Date, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Mar-2021 19:05 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 26-Mar-2021 12:38 | Don Diego | Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 10-Oct-2021 16:01 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 28-Jun-2022 18:36 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 31-Jul-2022 15:32 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Aug-2022 22:09 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 29-Aug-2022 07:30 | Anon. | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Aug-2023 19:02 | Anon. | Updated [[Source, Narrative]] |
| 24-Oct-2023 21:32 | Nepa | Updated [[[Source, Narrative]]] |
| 21-Nov-2023 10:24 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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