ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51949
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Date: | Wednesday 5 May 1943 |
Time: | 00:18 |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 149 (East India) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | EF343 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1 km SE of Hommerts, near Heeg, Friesland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Lakenheath |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Major Helmut Lent of the Stab IV./NJG 1, flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+AF from Leeuwarden airfield. Also claimed by Flak of the 3./Marine-Flak-Abteilung 246 battery Vlieland-West (at 00:16). Both claims confirmed by the Luftwaffe.
Target: Dortmund
Call Sign: OJ-B
Takeoff time: 22:15
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Walter Edwin Davey RAFVR 120435 (NCO:1336116 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 05 May, 1942) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Charles Willis Eric Leach RAF 345474 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Thomas Cuthbert Timney RAFVR 125606 (NCO:1027553 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 04 August, 1942) [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Richard Frederick Whitaker RAFVR 1384532 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Donald Richard Higgs RAFVR 1291126 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant James Joseph O'Neill RAFVR 1033308 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant George John Charles Hall RAFVR 1396863 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Edward Henry Finch RAAF Aus/406674 [Killed]
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2270&date=&location=&pn=&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 |
04-May-2018 09:35 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
18-Oct-2018 13:55 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
22-Jun-2022 16:17 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
03-May-2024 08:00 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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