ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 264851
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Date: | Thursday 23 September 1943 |
Time: | 23:07 LT |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 75 Sqn RNzAF |
Registration: | EH935 |
MSN: | JN-K |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Edesheim, Rheinland-Pfalz -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Mepal, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:52 hrs (local time) for an operation against Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg.
Homeward-bound, shot down by Unteroffizier Heinz Amsberg of the 9./NJG 1 based at Twente (the Netherlands), who was flying a Bf 110 G-4.
Note: coned by searchlights.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Laurence John Kirkpatrick RNZAF NZ/414990 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Charles Percival Ellins RAFVR 1509658 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Hugh Powell Sands RNZAF NZ/403287 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer William Richard Allan Mason RNZAF NZ/416865 [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Joseph Edwards Hoey RAFVR 656134 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant J Elliott RAF [PoW, repatriated]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant William Louis Jarvis RAAF Aus/414691 [Killed]
Those who perished rest in the Rheinberg War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=EH935&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-Jun-2021 19:03 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
28-Jun-2021 19:03 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
23-Apr-2024 19:12 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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