ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 305364
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| Date: | Thursday 10 July 1941 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 21 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | V6398 |
| MSN: | YH-A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Cherbourg Harbour. -
 France
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| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Watton, Norfolk |
Blenheim V6398/A: Took off at 10:40hrs to bomb the Cherbourg Docks. 10/07/1941
Aircraft shot down and crashed near Cherbourg Harbour, France.
Shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf-109F of Unteroffizier Heinz Scheibner of Erg/JG 2.
Crew:
S/Ldr (42576) Herbert John Charles TUDGE (pilot) RAF - POW
Sgt (960977) Cyril Gordon PENN (Obs.) RAFVR - POW
Sgt (951051) William Douglas BARKER (WOp/AG) RAFVR - POW
Sources:
1.Blenheim production list
2.ORB 21 Sqdn RAF
3.AIR81/7549
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 August 1941 | Z7447 | 21 Sqn RAF | 3 | North Sea south of Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland |  |
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