ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 206340
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| Date: | Friday 24 July 1942 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 9 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | Z1577 |
| MSN: | WS-? |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Wetten, Kevelaer, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Honington, Suffolk |
Takeoff at 01:21 hrs for an operation to Duisburg in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was hit by heavy (schwere) Flak and crashed at Wetten. Sgt Ratcliff died on 6 August 1942 from injuries sustained in the crash:
Pilot:102098 Fg Off Henry Ernest Brown - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 28. D. 5. (NCO:741440 Commission Gazetted : Friday 22 August, 1941)
107916 Plt Off N Jefferies PoW Stalag Luft 3 Zagan & Belaria. PoW Number 6450. (NCO:1165656 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 30 December, 1941)
J/8103 Plt Off G B Smith RCAF PoW Stalag Luft 3 Zagan & Belaria. PoW Number 6452
R/78363 Sgt Alfred Frank Chilvers Ratcliffe RCAF (Initially Injured) - Reichswald forest War Cemetery 31. E. 1.
R/105057 Sgt Jack Arthur Westwood RCAF PoW
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses 1942
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=Z1577+
Google Maps
CWGC
RAF Prisoners of war
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 8 July 1941 | R1040 | 9 Sqn RAF | 6 | Wilhelminasingel street, Maastricht, Limburg |  |
w/o |
| 8 September 1941 | Z8845 | 9 Sqn RAF | 6 | near the Bruggelaan road at Terwispel, Friesland | |
w/o |
| 6 January 1942 | X3388 | 9 Sqn RAF | 1 | RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, England |  |
w/o |
| 29 July 1942 | X3456 | 9 Sqn RAF | 5 | off the Frisian islands |  |
w/o |
| 29 July 1942 | X3606 | 9 Sqn RAF | 4 | Bürgerpark in Bremen | |
w/o |
| 1 August 1942 | BJ878 | 9 Sqn RAF | 5 | Hasselbeck, Ratingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Feb-2018 18:41 | Red Dragon | Added |
| 12-Nov-2018 15:07 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 07-May-2020 18:39 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 23-Jul-2023 06:58 | Rob Davis | Updated [[Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]] |
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