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Date: | Saturday 11 April 1942 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 12 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W5570 |
MSN: | PH-H |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Adolf Hitler Straße in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Binbrook |
Destination airport: | Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
Narrative:Hit by Flak of 7 Flak Division. Crashed into Adolf Hitler Straße Koln. Time Unknown.
Crew
Pilot: J/15258 Plt Off Harold Leslie Cook - Runnymede Memorial Panel 100.
2nd Pilot: 403047 Sgt Rae Rees Frost RAAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 112.
Observer: 402328 Flt Sgt Colin Alais Fletcher RAAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 111.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1160114 Sgt Edwin Victor Pratt - Runnymede Memorial Panel 91.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1184110 Sgt Findon Douglas Newton Row - Runnymede Memorial Panel 92.
Air Gunner: R/69829 Flt Sgt William Tripp McEwan RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 105.
Sources:
RAAF PERSONNEL SERVING ON ATTACHMENT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SQUADRONS AND SUPPORT UNITS IN WORLD WAR 2 AND MISSING WITH NO KNOWN GRAVE.
CWGC
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
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9 March 1942 |
Z8409 |
12 Sqn RAF |
5 |
wood near Dreumel, Gelderland |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Nov-2017 20:02 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
19-Oct-2018 14:11 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Operator] |
29-Apr-2019 16:57 |
Anon. |
Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Country, Destination airport, Narrative] |
17-Apr-2020 18:29 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Damage] |
05-Apr-2022 09:14 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location] |