ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 236611
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Date: | Wednesday 16 September 1942 |
Time: | 23:07 claim |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 25 OTU RAF |
Registration: | BJ969 |
MSN: | ?-B |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Rheine, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 20:26 hrs local time for an operation against the Krupp works at Essen in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted by the night fighter crew of Leutnant Gardiewski & Unteroffizier Abromeit of the 6./NJG 2, who had taken off at 22:42 hrs from Leeuwarden airfield (the Netherlands) in Bf 110 R4+IP.
Those who did not survive rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BJ969 Google Maps
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