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Date: | Saturday 12 June 1943 |
Time: | 01:00 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 431 (Iroquois) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | HE184 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea 22 km north of Westkapelle, Zeeland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Burn, UK |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Reinhard Kollak of the 7./NJG 4 (detached to 1./NJG 1), flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+EH from Gilze-Rijen airfield. Coned by Scheinwerfer nr. 13 and also claimed by Marine Flak of Nordbatterie, Westbatterie and Südbatterie Vlissingen.
Target: Düsseldorf
Call Sign: SE-M
Takeoff time: 23:20
Crew:
Pilot P/O. W.D. Eaglesham 148443 RAF Vlissingen E 32
Navigator F/O. L.C. Long 126471 RAF Belgium A-13 Buried Blankenberge cemetery
Bomb aimer P/O. H.T. McAusland 147496 RAF Runnymede Memorial 132
Wo ag P/O. J.H. Burrow 147470 RAF Runnymede Memorial 131
Air gunner Sgt. B.H. Stephenson 1190561 RAF Belgium 9-5-22 Buried Oostende New Communal Cem
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2436&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= - Air Britain: RAF Aircraft HA100 - HZ999, published 1989
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
30-Dec-2011 07:07 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
11-Jun-2018 07:14 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
14-Oct-2018 16:11 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |