ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 236410
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Date: | Friday 11 September 1942 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 75 (NZ) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BJ968 |
MSN: | AA-W |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea -
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - Düsseldorf, Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft vanished into the North Sea. Possibly, it was damaged by a Ju 88 C-6 night fighter of the III./NJG 2 based at Gilze-Rijen airfield in the Netherlands.
All five crew members are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sources:
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BJ968 Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-May-2020 12:23 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
11-Jan-2021 10:48 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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