Date:	Thursday 7 August 1941
Time:
Type:	Bristol Beaufighter Mk IF
Owner/operator:	25 Sqn RAF
Registration:	R2157
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Missing - English Channel. -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Beaufighter R2157: Took off at 23:20 hrs for Night operation mission over Coltishall. 06/08/1941
Aircraft failed to return from operational sortie, on the night of 6-7 August 1941. Both crew posted as "missing presumed killed". Some published sources state that Beaufighter R2157 was mis-identified as an enemy aircraft and shot down by another 25 Sqdn Beaufighter in a "friendly fire incident" over the English Channel, off the south coast of Engliand, quote: "Worth and Nekludow missing from night patrol in Beaufighter R2157. Probably shot down by another Beaufighter". 07/08/1941 .
Crew:
F/Lt (74973) Thomas Hovenden WORTH (pilot) RAFVR - killed
F/Sgt (1182423) Frederick Peter NEKLUDOW (obs.) RAFVR - killed

As neither crew was ever found, they are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

1.Beaufighter production list.
2.https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16757426
3.http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=R2157
4.ORB 25 Sqdn RAF
5.https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2502940 .

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