Accident Vickers Wellington Mk IC R1609,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53346
 
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Date:Wednesday 25 June 1941
Time:04:11 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator:214 (Federated Malay States) Sqn RAF
Registration: R1609
MSN: BU-?
Fatalities:Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:North Sea 10 km SW of Petten, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Stradishall, Suffolk
Destination airport:RAF Stradishall
Narrative:
Mission-Emden. Took off from RAF Stradishall at 2359 hrs. Lost without trace. Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Helmut Woltersdorf of the 4./NJG 1, who was flying Do 215 B-5 G9+OM from Leeuwarden airfield.
All are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. Sgt Cotton had survived a crash-landing earlier in the month on return from Berlin.
Crew
Sgt G T Jones (KIA)
Plt Off J Dodds-Forrest (KIA)
Sgt G T Hunt (KIA)
Sgt J C E Black (KIA)
Sgt K J Barton RCAF (KIA)
Sgt G A D Cotton (KIA)

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 73.
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1069A&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
29 August 1941 R1604 214 (Federated Malay States) Sqn RAF 6 Sint-Annaland, Zeeland w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
25-Apr-2016 18:46 Red Dragon Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
30-Oct-2018 08:24 Nepa Updated [Operator, Operator]
22-Jun-2019 10:05 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
25-Jun-2019 05:39 stehlik49 Updated [Operator]
03-Nov-2019 11:28 Anon. Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]
23-Jun-2022 03:41 Ron Averes Updated [Location]

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