This information is added by users of ASN. Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information.
If you feel this information is incomplete or incorrect, you can
submit corrected information.
Date: | Friday 26 June 1942 |
Time: | 05:00 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk Ic |
Owner/operator: | 18 OTU RAF |
Registration: | DV765 |
MSN: | XW-N |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Lollum, Friesland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bramcote |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:55 hrs for the third 1000 bomber raid, this time the target being Bremen in Germany.
The battle-damaged aircraft was put down in an emergency-landing near Lollum. Just before the landing, the Wimpey was engaged by light (leichte) Flak of the 4./Reserve-Flak-Abteilung 306.
All five were taken prisoner of war:
Pilot:P-83138 Sgt Józef Eugeniusz Laudan PoW
Navigator:P-0615 Fg Off Kajetan Ludwik Borantynski PoW
Bomb Aimer:P-784279 Sgt Alojzy Pozorski PoW
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:P-781417 Sgt Czesław Rajpold PoW -
Air Gunner:P-794588 Sgt Wacław Kowalik PoW
Sgt Rajpold died in POW camp on 26 Aug 1943. He is buried at Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1642&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
Google Maps
Find A Grave
Polish War Memorial RAF Northolt
18 OTU
Krzystek's List
RAF Prisoners of War
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
28-Jun-2017 17:55 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
23-Jan-2018 18:13 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
20-Feb-2018 17:40 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
01-May-2020 20:01 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
25-Jun-2022 07:20 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |