ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 202488
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| Date: | Tuesday 14 April 1942 |
| Time: | 01:09 claim |
| Type: |  Short Stirling Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 15 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | W7519 |
| MSN: | LS-O |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Location: | Missing - North Sea - |
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Wyton |
| Gardening - Wangerooge |
Gardening-Wangerooge.
The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Schütze & Feldwebel Hagmeier of the 4./NJG 2, who had taken off from Wittmund airfield (Niedersachsen, Germany) at 23:09 hrs, in a Bf 110 C-4.
Claim - Stirling - North Sea - 01:09
All eight crew members are missing in action:-
40922 Plt Off Ronald Victor Neal McKay RNZAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 116
404030 Flt Sgt Robert Henry Higgins RNZAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 117.
568554 Sgt Walter Cobell - Runnymede Memorial Panel 80.
1280312 Sgt John Patterson Smith Worling - Runnymede Memorial Panel 97.
1285720 Sgt Harry Humm - Runnymede Memorial Panel 86.
931535 Sgt Ronald David Steer - Runnymede Memorial Panel 94
952527 Sgt Harry George Kingston - Runnymede Memorial Panel 87.
97866 Captain John Cecil Noel Royal Artillery - Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial Surrey Panel 2. Column 2 (Commission Gazetted : Wednesday 06 September, 1939)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
CWGC.
Bomber Command Losses 1942
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 16 September 1941 | N6021 | 15 Sqn RAF | 7 | near Hemslingen, Niedersachsen |  |
w/o |
| 28 August 1943 | EH985 | 15 Sqn RAF | 3 | Hesselberg, Heßdorf, Bayern | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Dec-2017 23:55 | Red Dragon | Added |
| 03-Dec-2017 23:55 | Red Dragon | Updated [Source] |
| 06-Nov-2018 20:50 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 02-May-2019 06:56 | Anon. | Updated [Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 22-May-2021 09:28 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 13-Apr-2024 06:36 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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