ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 213650
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Date: | Wednesday 28 July 1943 |
Time: | 00:49 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | JA114 |
MSN: | AL- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Todenbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF East Moor |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Karl Kades of the 5./NJG 3, flying a Do 217N from Schleswig airfield. Ofw. Kades himself was also shot down that night: he survived, but his two crew members perished.
Takeoff time: 22:28
Crew:-
Pilot : Wing Commander James Arthur Piddington RAF 39562 [Killed] (Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 28 December, 1937)
Navigator : Flying Officer Allan Ronald Armitage Farquhar RCAF J/14805 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Paul Renton RAFVR 136395 [Killed] (NCO:1452882 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 30 March, 1943)
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Reginald Scarth RAF 591518 [PoW]
Crew : Sergeant Leonard Reineck RAF 1129400 [PoW]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JA114 Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
30 March 1943 |
BK540 |
429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
5 |
North Sea |
|
mis |
22 June 1943 |
HZ520 |
429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
2 |
Borkelsedijk, Bergeijk, Noord-Brabant |
|
w/o |
22 June 1943 |
HZ519 |
429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
5 |
into 'Het Keeten' near Stavenisse, Zeeland |
|
w/o |
22 June 1943 |
HZ517 |
429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
5 |
Poelakkerweg, Buggenum, Limburg |
|
w/o |
22 June 1943 |
HE981 |
429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
5 |
Langeweg, Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant |
|
w/o |
23 June 1943 |
HF457 |
429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
3 |
Houthalen-Helchteren, Limburg |
|
w/o |
25 June 1943 |
HZ521 |
429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
5 |
Hamme-Mille, Braibant walon |
|
w/o |
26 July 1943 |
HE803 |
429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
1 |
west of Culemborg train station, Gelderland |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Jul-2018 13:47 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
14-Oct-2018 16:00 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
27-Jul-2023 09:05 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [[Operator, Destination airport, Operator]] |
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