ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 233951
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Date: | Sunday 17 August 1941 |
Time: | 01:52 |
Type: | Avro Manchester Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | L7384 |
MSN: | OF- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Kinrooi, Limburg -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:50 hrs for an operation 'to destroy enemy communications near Düsseldorf'.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and intercepted by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hermann Reese of the 2./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=L7384 Google Maps
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