Accident Vickers Wellington Mk III Z1725,
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Date:Thursday 10 September 1942
Time:22:55
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk III
Owner/operator:25 OTU RAF
Registration: Z1725
MSN: ?-M
Fatalities:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Ellinghausen, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 20:24 hrs local time for an operation to Düsseldorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was hit by Flak of probably the 3./schwere Flak-Abteilung 524.

The five crew members rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Pilot: R/103575 Flight Sergeant Mervin Keith Matson (RCAF)
Navigator: R/90686 Flight Sergeant Joseph Hilarion Charron (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer: 1335832 Sergeant Stanley Terance Southgate (RAFVR)
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: 747753 Flight Sergeant Frank Reginald Molton (RAFVR)
Air Gunner: 1337937 Sergeant Henry William Hancock (RAFVR)

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=Z1725
Google Maps
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=z1725&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=Z1725
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2040281
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2035579

Revision history:

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26-May-2020 10:00 TigerTimon Added

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