Accident Vickers Wellington Mk III BJ969,
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Date:Wednesday 16 September 1942
Time:23:07 claim
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
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
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Revision history:

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