ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 224967
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Date: | Sunday 11 May 1941 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk Ic |
Owner/operator: | 149 (East India) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R1512 |
MSN: | OJ-H |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:37 hrs for an operation to Hamburg, Germany.
The aircraft is lost without trace. It was possibly hit by one of these two night fighter pilots: Oberleutnant Karl-Heinz Hollborn of the 5./NJG 1 (based at Stade airfield, Germany; flying a Bf 110 E-1) or Oberfeldwebel Johann Schönherr of the 6./NJG 1 (based at Stade airfield, Germany; flying Bf 110 D-3 G9+HP).
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
Aircrew Remembered -
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R1512 Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-May-2019 06:28 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
11-May-2019 06:42 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
12-May-2019 12:17 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
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