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Date: | Monday 4 September 1939 |
Time: | |
Type: | Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 107 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N6184 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | the coast near Wilhelmshaven harbour. -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wattisham, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Blenheim N6184: Took off at 16:00 hrs for attack warships in Schillig Roads nr Wilhelmshaven. 04/09/1940
Five Blenheims of 107 Sqdn. despatched at 16:00 hrs to attack German warships in Schillig Roads near Wilhelmshaven. Four of them were not heard from again and the other failed to locate the enemy & brought its bombs back. Most of the remaining Blenheims conducted low altitude attacks on the Admiral Scheer and Emden cruisers. At least three bombs fell on the Admiral Scheer cruiser, but did not explode; Emden was damaged and suffered some casualties when a Blenheim crashed on its deck.
Five Blenheims were shot, all or most of them by the AA artillery; 107 Sqdn lost four of its five planes. Blenheim N6184 was shot down by the artillery of the Admiral Hipper
Crew:
F/Lt (34213) William Frank BARTON (Pilot) RAF - killed
F/O (39340) John Frederick ROSS (Obs.) RAF - killed
Cpl (519859) James Leslie RICKETTS (WOp/AG) RAF - killed
Sources:
1.Blenheim production list¨
2.ORB 107 Sqdn RAF
3.CWGC
4.Kew: AIR81/1
5.https://przystanekhistoria.pl/pa2/tematy/english-content/75164,Royal-Air-Force-in-September-39.html
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