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Date: | Monday 20 July 1942 |
Time: | 02:51 |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 10 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W1106 |
MSN: | ZA-A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea off Borkum island in Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Leeming |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:48 hrs for an operation against the U-boat docks at Bremen-Vegesack.
The aircraft was intercepted by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Schoenert & Feldwebel Richter of the 4./NJG 2, who had taken off from Wittmund airfield in Bf 110 F-4 R4+BM - (claim) Borkum (Jaguar) at 02:51.
All seven are missing in action:
66498 Plt Off John Samuel Victor Fegan - Runnymede Memorial Panel 69 (NCO:903677 Commission Gazetted : Friday 13 June, 1941)
567281 Sgt Albert John Beattie - Runnymede Memorial Panel 78.
R/86412 Flt Sgt William Graham Gibson RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 104.
1077710 Sgt Cresswell Atchison - Runnymede Memorial Panel 77.
R/77459 Flt Sgt Frederick William Stewart RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 106.
J/8101 Plt Off Erle Ernest Edward Johnstone RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 100.
1378704 Sgt Frederick George Albert Bick - Runnymede Memorial Panel 78.
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses 1942
CWGC
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
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JD368 |
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1 |
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LV912 |
10 Sqn RAF |
7 |
1.5 km west of Schöppingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-Feb-2018 18:57 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
02-Nov-2018 19:15 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
06-May-2020 12:53 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
19-Jul-2023 06:33 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [[Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]] |