ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 201144
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| Date: | Friday 27 February 1942 |
| Time: | 00:55 claim |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 405 (Vancouver) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | W5516 |
| MSN: | LQ-D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Location: | North Sea west of Westerland/Sylt (Schleswig-Holstein) -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Pocklington |
Took off from RAF Pocklington at 18:59 hrs local time for an operation against Kiel.
Claim by Hptm Günther Radusch Stab II./NJG3 - Sea West of Westerland (7532 Auster) at 00:55.
Other crews reported a heavy concentration of searchlights and flak over the target area. At 20:13 near Husem, two vapour trails were seen by one pilot and a minute later a large red flash in the sky and a burning aircraft seen descending. This may or may not have been W5516.
Following post war enquiries and investigations, it was recorded in 1949 that the missing crew had no known grave.
Wg Cdr Macallister was OC 405 Squadron.
Crew:-
Pilot: 68798 Flt Lt James Alexander Robson - Runnymede Memorial Panel 66. (NCO:937980 Commission Gazetted : Friday 11 July, 1941)
Pilot: C/169 Wg Cdr Gordon Dale Macallister RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 99.
Observer: Aus/402569 Sgt John Henry Dyson RAAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 111.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: R/65815 Flt Sgt Melvin Peter Frederick Robson RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 106.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: R/60734 Flt Sgt Edmund Cecil Phillips RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 106.
Air Gunner: R/56087 Flt Sgt William Stapleton Piers RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 106.
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses 1942
http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/men_of_22otu.htm
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 8 November 1941 | W5553 | 405 (Vancouver) Sqn RCAF | 6 | between Sankt Jürgen - Niederblockland; Lilienthal, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Nov-2017 20:12 | Red Dragon | Added |
| 10-Nov-2017 20:21 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 10-Nov-2017 20:32 | Red Dragon | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Total fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 19-Nov-2017 11:47 | harro | Updated [Source] |
| 13-Oct-2018 16:51 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, Destination airport] |
| 20-Apr-2019 09:03 | Anon. | Updated [Location, Country, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 15-Feb-2022 09:43 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Feb-2024 08:05 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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