Incident Vickers Wellington Mk IC R1184,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53305
 
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Date:Friday 11 July 1941
Time:02:40 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator:300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration: R1184
MSN: BH-B
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:North Sea 2 km WNW of Hoek van Holland, Zuid-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:RAF Swinderby
Narrative:
Takeoff at 22:49 hrs for an operation to Köln, Germany.
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Wolfgang Thimmig of the 2./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield.

Whole crew POWs: F/Lt Janicki, P/O Kuflik, P/O Kozinski, Sgt Sztul, Sgt Artymiuk and Sgt Suczynski.

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1105&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
LIST OF NO. 300 SQUADRON AIRCRAFT AND FLYING PERSONNEL LOSSES Compiled by Wilhelm Ratuszynski.

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
3 July 1942 Z1326 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF 0 North Sea 25 miles east of Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England mis

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
01-May-2016 12:37 Red Dragon Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
23-Dec-2017 17:22 Nepa Updated [Operator, Phase, Destination airport]
17-Feb-2018 16:54 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
09-Jul-2019 07:06 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
09-Jul-2019 10:35 stehlik49 Updated [Operator]
04-Nov-2019 07:13 Anon. Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Operator]
22-Jun-2022 17:04 Ron Averes Updated [Location]

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