ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53406
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Date: | Sunday 23 March 1941 |
Time: | 18:52 LT |
Type: | Bristol Blenheim Mk IVF |
Owner/operator: | 235 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z6085 |
MSN: | QY-D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea 10 km west of Hoek van Holland, Zuid-Holland -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bircham Newton, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 15:40 LT for an anti-shipping operation.
Shot down by fighter pilot Oberleutnant Paul Stolte of the 3./JG 1 (based at De Kooy airfield), who was flying a Bf 109E.
The crew is still missing to this day; they are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial:
Pilot P/O. A.W.B. Newman 87427 RAF
Observer Sgt. H. Willis 971577 RAF
WO / AG Sgt. V.S. Key 759103 RAF
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0974B&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Jagdgeschwader/JG1.htm
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
27 June 1940 |
P6958 |
235 Sqn RAF |
3 |
near Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Noord-Holland |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
02-May-2019 19:14 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
03-May-2019 09:48 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
20-Mar-2020 09:01 |
DB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
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