Accident Vickers Wellington Mk Ic T2465,
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Date:Sunday 29 December 1940
Time:20:53 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Owner/operator:115 Sqn RAF
Registration: T2465
MSN: KO-O
Fatalities:Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Bochum-Langendreer, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 17:17 hrs local time for a bombing operation against Hamm in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

The aircraft was hit by the 1./Reserve-Flak-Abteilung 324 and crashed. All six rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=T2465
Google Maps

Revision history:

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