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Date: | Tuesday 10 March 1942 |
Time: | |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 138 (Special Duties) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z9125 |
MSN: | NF-A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Outside RAF Stradishall -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Stradishall |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Aircraft crashed after take off outside RAF Stradishall airfield for French Operation FRENSHAM I
Crew
Pilot: Sqn Ldr Boris Romanoff MiD RAF - Hendon Crematorium Panel 5
2nd Pilot: Sgt Maxmillian Politzer (Czech) - Cambridge Crematorium.Ashes returned to Czechoslovakia in 1945
Pilot: Sgt Jan Janek (Czech) Haverhill Cemetery Suffolk - Sec. U. Grave 193.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: Sgt Ladislav Fornusek (Czech) - Haverhill Cemetery Suffolk - Sec. U. Grave 192.
Navigator: Fg Off Vaclav Jelinek (Czech) - Haverhill Cemetery Suffolk - Sec. U. Grave 243.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: Sgt Bohumil Vaverka (Czech) Injured
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses 1942.
Aircraft lost on Allied Force’s Special Duty Operations
CWGC
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-Nov-2017 21:38 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
28-Oct-2018 17:31 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
01-Mar-2019 17:31 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Aircraft type] |