ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 303101
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| Date: | Wednesday 14 January 1942 |
| Time: | 13:20 |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 21 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | Z7342 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Mediterranean Sea, due east of Sfax off the coast of Tunisia. -
 Tunisia
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| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Luqa, Malta |
Blenheim Z7342/H: Took off at 11:45 hrs for a Anti ship patrol. 14/01/1942
Four Blenheims take off at 11:45 hrs for C/v sweep Linosa, Kerkennah, Tripoli. The Blenheims located and attacked a German motor vessel and its Italian destroyer escort, nn a shipping beat of Kerkennia Isle, due east of Sfax, off the coast of Tunisia. During a low-level attack on the enemy vessels, Blenheim Z7342 hit the mast of the German ship . Crew had just bombed a ship from sea level, but in pulling up hit a mast with his starboard wing, and plunged into the sea
Crew:
F/Lt (66515) Harold Frederick DUKES-SMITH (pilot) RAF - killed
F/Sgt (63057) Anthony HUSSEY (Obs.) RAF - killed
Sgt (932296) Alfred James WRATTEN (WOp/AG) RAFVR - killed
Sources:
1.Blenheim production list
2.Blenheim Losses 1942
3.AIR81/11581
4.CWGC
5.ORB
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