ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 226641
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Date: | Monday 30 June 1941 |
Time: | 02:50 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk Ic |
Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R1509 |
MSN: | KO-P |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Deinstedt, Niedersachsen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Marham, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:06 hrs for an operation to Hamburg.
Coned by searchlights and shot down by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Herbert Ludwig of the 5./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Stade airfield.
The rear gunner, J.V. Gill, landed in a tree, wounded. Dazed by the shock of his wounds he undid his parachute harness and fell forty feet breaking his back. He died in a German hospital the following day.
For the rest of the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R1509 https://115squadron-raf.be/crews/Wellington%20Mk%20IC%20-%20R1509%20-%20KO-P.html
History of this aircraft
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31 October 1941 |
X9873 |
115 Sqn RAF |
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Beach pole 3, Schiermonnikoog, Friesland |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-Jun-2019 10:22 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
28-Jun-2019 10:22 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source] |
28-Jun-2019 11:17 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Damage] |
28-Jun-2019 12:11 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
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