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Date: | Tuesday 27 April 1943 |
Time: | 03:15 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 196 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | HE168 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Poederoijen, Gelderland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Leconfield (EGXV) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Hans-Dieter Frank of the 2./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Gilze-Rijen airfield.
Target: Duisburg
Call Sign: ZO-X
Takeoff time: 00:01
Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant George Frederick Fletcher RAFVR 1383620 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Ernest George Francis RAFVR 143571 (NCO:1208531 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 01 June, 1943) [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Eric Thomas Dunn Hardee RAFVR 1382065 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Frank Theodore Pratt RAFVR 1189940 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant James Alfred Hawkins RAFVR 976658 [Killed]
All lie at the Poederoijen Protestant Churchyard, Netherlands (GPS 51.785593 / 5.080606)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2213&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
Air Britain: RAF Aircraft HA100 - HZ999, published 1989
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
30-Dec-2011 08:09 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
26-Apr-2018 18:20 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
01-Nov-2018 09:38 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
26-Apr-2024 06:21 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |