ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 235899
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Date: | Monday 27 July 1942 |
Time: | 02:15 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 142 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z1461 |
MSN: | QT-F |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Haddien, Wangerland, Niedersachsen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Grimsby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:57 hrs for an operation to Hamburg.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was hit by heavy Flak of the schwere Flakbatterie Rüstersiel (II. Marine-Flak-Brigade) and crashed.
All five rest at the Sage War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=Z1461 Google Maps
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