ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 202502
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Date: | Wednesday 15 April 1942 |
Time: | 05:10 |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 15 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N6076 |
MSN: | LS-D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
Location: | RAF Newmarket -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Newmarket |
Narrative:Returning from the raid on Dortmund the aircraft crashed land with an unserviceable undercarriage.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Neville Arthur Bennitt RAFVR 100634 (NCO:1193004 : Commission Gazetted Friday 01 August, 1941)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Ronald Sawyer RAF 563012
Navigator : Sergeant Gordon Lewis John RAAF Aus/400505
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Henry William Aldridge RAFVR 1262457 (Officer:128049 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 08 September, 1942)
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Cornelius Johannes Du Preez RAFVR 777663
Flight Sergeant K W R McMillan RNZAF
Sergeant Sullivan RAF
Sergeant Worley RAF
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses 1942.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Dec-2017 16:26 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
06-Nov-2018 20:51 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
14-Apr-2024 06:32 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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