ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 235926
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Date: | Wednesday 29 July 1942 |
Time: | 01:21 claim |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk Ic |
Owner/operator: | 22 OTU RAF |
Registration: | X3201 |
MSN: | ?-O Bar (call sign |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Schleswig-Holstein -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wellesbourne Mountford, Warwickshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:00 hrs for an operation to Hamburg.
The aircraft was shot up by Flak and probably engaged by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Willi Elstermann of the 6./NJG 3 based at Schleswig airfield.
The survivors were taken prisoner of war.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=X3201 Google Maps
Revision history:
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