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Date: | Monday 14 September 1942 |
Time: | 04:12 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 460 Sqn RAAF |
Registration: | Z1385 |
MSN: | UV-Z |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Brinkum (Stuhr) - Erichshof (Weyhe) in Niedersachsen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Breighton, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 00:17 hrs local time for an operation to Bremen.
The aircraft was hit by heavy (schwere) Flak and crashed.
Four of the crew rest in the Sage War Cemetery, the fifth in Rheinberg War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=Z1385 Google Maps, Volker Urbansky found the crash site.
v.urbansky@t-online.de
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
2 June 1942 |
Z1311 |
460 Sqn RAAF |
6 |
Route de Mons, Binche, Hainaut |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-May-2020 13:00 |
TigerTimon |
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