ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 235881
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Date: | Monday 27 July 1942 |
Time: | 02:30 LT |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 214 (Federated Malay States) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W7560 |
MSN: | BU-C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Westerdeichstrich, Schleswig-Holstein -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Stradishall, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:37 hrs for an operation to Hamburg.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by a Bf 110 night fighter of the 5./NJG 3 based at Schleswig airfield. All seven crew members were taken prisoner of war.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W7560 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
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3 March 1943 |
EF329 |
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6 |
Leeste, Weyhe, Niedersachsen |
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w/o |
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BK686 |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-May-2020 15:06 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
23-Mar-2021 16:55 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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