Date:	Thursday 7 May 1942
Time:	01:47
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk III
Owner/operator:	115 Sqn RAF
Registration:	X3466
MSN:	KO-N
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Mr Forget's Farm at Montigny-le-Franc, Aisne département -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:	operation - Stuttgart, Germany

Narrative:
Claimed by Oblt Kurt Fladrich of 9./NJG 4 - (claim) 1.5 km NW Montigny-le-Franc at 01:47.
Crew
Pilot:36261 Flt Lt Nathaniel Paterson(New Zealander) - Runnymede Memorial Panel 66.
Observer:403965 Plt Off Patrick Henry Francis Wil Leland RNZAF - Laon (St. Just) Communal Cemetery Grave 15.
Navigator:1184107 Sgt A E Smith PoW Stalag 357 Kopernikus. PoW Number 443.
Wireless Operator:1165659 WO B A Ramsbottom PoW Stalag 357 Kopernikus. PoW Number 83.
**Air Gunner:1061420 WO Edward Callendar DFM PoW Stalag Luft 6 Heydekrug/Stalag Luft 3 Zagan & Belaria. PoW Number 38./Runnymede Memorial Panel 213.

France-Crashes 39-45
Bomber command Losses 1942
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Google Maps
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Other occurrences involving this aircraft

5 September 1942	BJ663	115 Sqn RAF	5	Altenrheine, Rheine, Nordrhein-Westfalen		w/o
2 March 1943	BK495	115 Sqn RAF	5	North Sea 5 km W of Terschelling, Friesland		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-Dec-2017 14:11	Red Dragon	Added
28-Oct-2018 16:53	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]
05-May-2022 17:51	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]