Accident Vickers Wellington Mk Ic DV890,
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Date:Friday 11 September 1942
Time:00:05 approx
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Owner/operator:11 OTU RAF
Registration: DV890
MSN: OP-G
Fatalities:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:near Bienen, Rees, Nordrhein-Westfalen (claim location) -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 20:36 hrs local time for an operation to Düsseldorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Manfred Meurer of the Stab III./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 F-4 from Twente airfield in the Netherlands.

All five rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=DV890
Google Maps

Revision history:

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