ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 244599
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Date: | Monday 9 November 1942 |
Time: | 20:06 LT |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 7 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BF387 |
MSN: | MG-U |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea off Sylt island, Schleswig-Holstein -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 17:19 hrs for a bombing operation against Hamburg.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was hit by Marine Flak and 2./leichte Flak-Abteilung 836 (o).
There were no survivors amongst the crew. Six of them are still missing in action.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BF387 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
30 September 1941 |
W7433 |
7 Sqn RAF |
7 |
North Sea 40 miles northeast of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England |
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mis |
14 January 1942 |
N3672 |
7 Sqn RAF |
0 |
RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England |
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unk |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Nov-2020 19:48 |
TigerTimon |
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