Accident Vickers Wellington Mk X HE864,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51945
 
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Date:Wednesday 5 May 1943
Time:02:16
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk X
Owner/operator:428 (Ghost) Sqn RCAF
Registration: HE864
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Marsweg, Ittersum, near Zwolle, Overijssel -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Dalton, UK
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Shot down by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Emil Heinzelmann of the 8./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield.

Target: Dortmund
Call Sign: NA-D
Takeoff time: 22:35
Crew:
Pilot F/Sgt. D.W. Johnson R/120884 RCAF Zwolle 2
Navigator Sgt. J.L. Boyd R/61778 RCAF Survived
Bomb aimer F/Sgt. J. Prosnyck R/110932 RCAF Zwolle 1
Wo ag Sgt. T.A. Thomson R/79019 RCAF Survived
Air gunner Sgt. J.J. Levasseur R/113949 RCAF Survived

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2275&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One

- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft HA100 - HZ999, published 1989

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
30-Dec-2011 03:56 Uli Elch Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
05-May-2018 08:09 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
14-Oct-2018 15:37 Nepa Updated [Operator, Operator]

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