ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53266
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| Date: | Saturday 26 July 1941 |
| Time: | 03:25 LT |
| Type: |  Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | 10 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | Z6624 |
| MSN: | ZA-O |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea 10 km west of De Kooy, Noord-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Leeming |
| RAF Leeming |
Mission:Hanover. Took off from RAF Leeming at 2221 hrs. Crashed into the North Sea. Sgt Wells RNZAF was washed ashore at km-paal on Texel on 25th August 1941: he is buried in Den Burg General Cemetery. The graves of Plt Off Pringle and Flt Sgt Christie are in Kiel War Cemetery, while the rest of the crew are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. Claim by Oblt Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weissenfeld- 4/NJG1 - North Sea 10km West of De Kooy - 2,000m at 03:23.
Crew
Sqdn Ldr F Peter Wellwood Fortune F Landale DFC (KIA) 70379, Gazette of 16th March 1937
Plt Off George Pringle (KIA) 63490 (NCO:1039717, Gazette of 2nd May 1941)
Sgt George Wells RNZAF (KIA) NZ/391886
Sgt Alfred William Earp (KIA) RAFVR 957727
Flt Sgt George Christie (KIA) RAFVR 971579
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1145&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the second World War 1941 Page 103.
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 30 November 1941 | Z9166 | 10 Sqn RAF | 5 | - missing - |  |
mis |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 02-May-2016 19:55 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Nov-2018 18:57 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 03-Dec-2018 21:00 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 26-Jul-2019 17:36 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source] |
| 22-Sep-2021 09:41 | Rob Davis | Updated [Narrative] |
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