ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51708
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Date: | Friday 25 June 1943 |
Time: | 04:14 LT |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 75 (NZ) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | EH902 |
MSN: | AA-K |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea off Wissekerke, Zeeland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Newmarket |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:23 for an operation to Wuppertal, Germany.
Coned by searchlight(s) of the 9./Flakscheinwerfer-Abteilung 810 (o) and hit by heavy Flak of the 7./schwere Flak-Abteilung 202.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Norman Bradford Bluck RNZAF NZ/40364 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant John William Gillard RAFVR 938834 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant James Brett Cooksey RNZAF NZ/416460 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Walter Strong RNZAF NZ/413905 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Michael Kendlan RAFVR 1072258 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Douglas Armitage RAFVR 1434609 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Leslie Ronald Cant RAFVR 1397680 [Killed]
Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery, Holland (51.502028 / 4.332920)
Flushing (Vlissingen) Northern Cemetery, Netherlands (51.453933 / 3.581271)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=&date=&location=&pn=Eh902&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
24-Dec-2018 13:11 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
25-Dec-2018 21:02 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
04-May-2024 11:07 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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