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Date: | Thursday 7 May 1942 |
Time: | 01:47 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | X3466 |
MSN: | KO-N |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Mr Forget's Farm at Montigny-le-Franc, Aisne département -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Marham, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | operation - Stuttgart, Germany |
Narrative:Claimed by Oblt Kurt Fladrich of 9./NJG 4 - (claim) 1.5 km NW Montigny-le-Franc at 01:47.
Crew
Pilot:36261 Flt Lt Nathaniel Paterson(New Zealander) - Runnymede Memorial Panel 66.
Observer:403965 Plt Off Patrick Henry Francis Wil Leland RNZAF - Laon (St. Just) Communal Cemetery Grave 15.
Navigator:1184107 Sgt A E Smith PoW Stalag 357 Kopernikus. PoW Number 443.
Wireless Operator:1165659 WO B A Ramsbottom PoW Stalag 357 Kopernikus. PoW Number 83.
**Air Gunner:1061420 WO Edward Callendar DFM PoW Stalag Luft 6 Heydekrug/Stalag Luft 3 Zagan & Belaria. PoW Number 38./Runnymede Memorial Panel 213.
Sources:
France-Crashes 39-45
Bomber command Losses 1942
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Google Maps
**https://www.facebook.com/InternationalBomberCommandCentre/posts/1545762308809340:0
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
5 September 1942 |
BJ663 |
115 Sqn RAF |
5 |
Altenrheine, Rheine, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
2 March 1943 |
BK495 |
115 Sqn RAF |
5 |
North Sea 5 km W of Terschelling, Friesland |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-Dec-2017 14:11 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
28-Oct-2018 16:53 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
05-May-2022 17:51 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |