ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51694
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Date: | Saturday 26 June 1943 |
Time: | 02:21 LT |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 15 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BK699 |
MSN: | LS-E |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Waddenzee, Dantziggat, S of Ameland, Friesland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:35 for an operation to Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Hit by the night fighter pilots Hauptmann Rudolf Sigmund of the 10./NJG 1 (flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Bergen or Leeuwarden airfield) and Unteroffizier Hans Baldischweiler of the 12./NJG 1 (flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+CZ from Leeuwarden airfield).
Crew:
Pilot P/O. M.A. Chapman MiD 134746 RAF Runnymede Memorial 123 (NCO:741622, Gazette of 29th December 1942)
Flight engineer Sgt. T.E. Warbey 1212244 RAF Runnymede Memorial 168
Navigator P/O. R.F. Pavely DFM 50509 RAF Runnymede Memorial 133 (NCO:581527, Gazette of 12th January 1943)
Bomb aimer F/O. A. Woodward 131966 RAF Runnymede Memorial 130 (NCO:1099351, Gazette of 6th April 1943)
Wireless op Sgt. J. Condron 1023509 RAF Runnymede Memorial 145
Air gunner Sgt. A.K. Smith 954610 RAF Runnymede Memorial 165
Air gunner Sgt. D.E. Campbell R/142311 RCAF Harlingen E-4-12 Washed up near Dijksterburen pole 5.7 at 8 Jul 43
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=&date=&location=&pn=BK699&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
History of this aircraft
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
28-Dec-2018 20:26 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
29-Dec-2018 19:35 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
15-Jan-2019 12:23 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
20-Sep-2021 17:33 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Narrative] |
15-Jun-2022 04:26 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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