ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 244845
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Date: | Monday 21 December 1942 |
Time: | 19:41 LT |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 7 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BF358 |
MSN: | MG-C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Bois de Void, Void-Vacon, Meuse département -
France
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 17:10 hrs for a bombing operation against München in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Heinrich Wohlers of the 8./NJG 4, who was flying a Bf 110 F-4 from Juvincourt airfield.
Four crew members have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. The four others rest in the local cemetery.
Sources:
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=197 Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
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21 June 1942 |
W7472 |
7 Sqn RAF |
8 |
North Sea 3.5 km W of Bergen aan Zee, Noord-Holland |
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Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Nov-2020 20:11 |
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