ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 170521
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| Date: | Monday 8 September 1941 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Short Stirling Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 7 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | N6046 |
| MSN: | MG-Y |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Polsum, Marl, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
| RAF Oakington |
Shot down by German Luftwaffe during a bombing raid on Berlin, Germany.
The entire crew savely bailed out.
Mission : Berlin. Took off from RAF Oakington at 20:01 hrs.
At 00:32 hrs, north of Berlin and flying at 2,000 feet, the aircraft was shot up by the night fighter crew of Leutnant Altendorf & Unteroffizier Arndt of the 2./NJG 3 (flying a Bf 110). On the return flight it was hit by Flak and succesfully vacated by the crew:
Sgt A Yardley (POW)
Flt Lt C M Hall RAAF (POW)
Sgt D Owens (POW)
Sgt J H Boulton (POW)
Sgt J M Sutton (POW)
Sgt L E J Davenport (POW)
Sgt A Speakman (POW)
Sources:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2795795/man-obsessed-raf-grandfather-s-ww2-bomber-crash-german-forest-discovers-wrecked-plane-painstaking-research.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 139.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
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Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 29 September 1941 | W7441 | 7 Sqn RAF | 3 | Lillebælt strait south of the island of Brandsø (Assens, Syddanmark) |  |
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| 20 May 1942 | N6073 | 7 Sqn RAF | 1 | Rheinland-Pfalz | |
w/o |
| 14 July 1942 | R9331 | 7 Sqn RAF | 0 | Flint House Cambridgeshire |  |
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| 14 August 1942 | W7579 | 7 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea off Nymindegab, Nørre Nebel, Syddanmark | |
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| 9 November 1942 | R9169 | 7 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea off Noord-Holland |  |
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| 11 April 1943 | R9275 | 7 Sqn RAF | 7 | Koerich, Capellen |  |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Oct-2014 17:09 | gerard57 | Added |
| 08-May-2016 16:27 | Red Dragon | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 12-Nov-2018 16:44 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
| 21-May-2021 19:26 | TigerTimon | Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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