ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 226025
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| Date: | Sunday 26 July 1942 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | Z1606 |
| MSN: | KO-J |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Marham, Norfolk |
Took off from RAF Marham at 23:57 hrs for an operation to Duisburg in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was shot down by the Luftwaffe, either by Flak or by a Bf 110 in the hands of Oberleutnant Reinhold Knacke of the 1./NJG 1 flying from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands; crashed near Krefeld where the crew were initially buried:
Pilot: J/7072 Plt Off Donald Orlo Felt RCAF - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 28 Row D Grave 1.
Observer: 116705 Plt Off John Walker Scott - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 28 Row D Grave 2 (NCO:1343699 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 02 June, 1942)
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1187036 Sgt Alwyne Robert Bowen - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 28 Row D Grave 3.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1109648 Sgt Cecil Stanley Weston - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 28 Row D Grave 4.
Air Gunner: 625779 Sgt Cyril Wellesley Bourke - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 28 Row D Grave 13.
Sources:
CWGC
BCL 1942
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 12 April 1940 | P9284 | 115 Sqn RAF | 6 | Stavanger-Sola Airfield, Stavanger, Rogaland |  |
w/o |
| 21 May 1940 | R3152 | 115 Sqn RAF | 6 | near Le Havre, Seine Maratime |  |
w/o |
| 3 August 1940 | R3202 | 115 Sqn RAF | 6 | Waddenzee near Rottumeroog, Groningen prv |  |
w/o |
| 4 June 1942 | X3635 | 115 Sqn RAF | 5 | 1 km south of Adelheide, Delmenhorst, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 14 September 1942 | BJ693 | 115 Sqn RAF | 6 | North Sea off Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 28 September 1942 | Z1663 | 115 Sqn RAF | 3 | IJsselmeer 8 km SW of Urk, (modern Flevoland) | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Jun-2019 16:21 | Anon. | Added |
| 11-Jan-2020 16:55 | stehlik49 | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 08-May-2020 13:26 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-May-2020 13:27 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 16-Apr-2024 14:38 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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