Accident Short Stirling Mk I BK604,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52182
 
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Date:Wednesday 3 February 1943
Time:20:13
Type:Silhouette image of generic strl model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Short Stirling Mk I
Owner/operator:75 (NZ) Sqn RAF
Registration: BK604
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 8
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Goorseweg 37 near Enter, Overijssel -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Newmarket
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Wolfgang Thimmig of the Stab III./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 F-4 from Twente airfield.

Target: Hamburg
Call Sign: AA-S
Takeoff time: 18:23
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer John McCullough RNZAF NZ/40410 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Francis Frederick Allen RAFVR 936019 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Terence Austin Murphy RNZAF NZ/413307 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Paul Rodney Trevayne RAFVR 1291380 [Killed]
Crew : Sergeant Keith James Stockley Smith RNZAF NZ/411783 [PoW]
Crew : Sergeant Kenneth Edward Kimberley RAF 1576231 [PoW]
Crew : Pilot Officer Raymond William Henderson RNZAF NZ/411894 [PoW]
Crew : Flight Sergeant William Edmund Gibbes RNZAF NZ/404535 [PoW]

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2031&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://www.ww2.dk/air/njagd/njg1.htm
nachtjagd combat archive 1943 part one
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
01-Feb-2018 21:00 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
20-Feb-2018 19:17 Nepa Updated [Operator, Location]
25-Aug-2018 10:46 TigerTimon Updated [Source, Narrative]
03-Feb-2024 07:58 Rob Davis Updated [Source, Narrative]

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