ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 171056
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| Date: | Wednesday 11 December 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 107 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | Z5794 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Wattisham, Suffolk |
Blenheim Z5794: Took off for an operation to Cologne on 10/12/1940.
Approaching the target area, the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing.
All three crew members became PoW.
Crew:-
P/O (42698) Wilfred Henry CULLING (pilot) RAF - POW (Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 03 October, 1939)
W/O (746717) Arnold BROWN (obs) RAFVR - POW
Sgt (935296) Edwin Thomas PERRY (WOp/AG) RAFVR - POW
Sgt Brown, became a POW in camps L1/L6 and 357. After liberation, Arnold and his fellow POW’s were moved from the camp during the coldest winter months of the twentieth century with blizzards and sub zero temperatures and force marched. Already weak from the years in the camp on meagre prison rations and suffering from frost bite and hunger, many succumbed to disease and starvation along the route. On reaching the village of Gresse,15 kilometres north-east of Lauenburg, on the 19th April 1945, six Royal Air Force Typhoons opened fire with rockets and bombs on the POW column as they walked along a narrow country road amidst open fields, accidentally mistaking them for retreating columns of German troops. Sixty allied POW’s were killed and many including Arnold were wounded. Tragically, Arnold died of his injuries on 20th April 1945 in Boisenburg Krankenhaus Hospital.
P/O Culling was in camp#L3,while Sgt Perry was taken to Camp L1,L6,357.
Sources:
1. http://bombercrew.com/107/brown.htm
2. Blenheim production list
3. ORB 107 Sqdn RAF
4. CWGC
5. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Nov-2014 09:54 | Paco | Added |
| 26-Sep-2018 10:50 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 10-Dec-2023 07:45 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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