Accident Vickers Wellington Mk X HE148,
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Date:Thursday 8 April 1943
Time:23:07
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk X
Owner/operator:300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration: HE148
MSN: BH-T
Fatalities:Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:North Sea 20 km W of IJmuiden, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Shot down by Marine Flak of the 1./Marine-Flak-Abteilung 816.

Target: Duisburg
Call Sign: BH-T
Take off time: 21:40
Crew:
Pilot: P-792/RAF No 782361 Plt Off Stefan Tomicki - Polish War Memorial RAF Northolt Panel 72.
Navigator: P-2021 Fg Off Jan Rudek - Bergen General Cemetery Plot II Row E Grave 5 (Washed up Castricum on 10 Apr 43) Polish War Memorial RAF Northolt Panel 60.
Bomb Aimer: RAF No 780872 Sgt Tadeusz Wladyslaw Kniazycki - Polish War Memorial RAF Northolt Panel 30.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: RAF No 794308 Sgt Wladyslaw Marczuk - Polish War Memorial RAF Northolt Panel 42.
Air Gunner: RAF No 792832 Sgt Stanislaw Stepien - Bergen General Cemetery Plot II Row E Grave 7(Washed up Egmond aan Zee on 10 Apr 43)Polish War Memorial RAF Northolt Panel 67.

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2182&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=

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

CWGC
Polish War Memorial RAF Northolt.

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
15 May 1942 Z1270 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF 0 RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire, England sub
27 July 1942 Z1270 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF 1 North Sea beach at Westerland on Sylt island, Schleswig-Holstein w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
30-Dec-2011 07:54 Uli Elch Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Apr-2018 19:48 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
08-Apr-2018 12:45 Red Dragon Updated [Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
08-Apr-2018 13:32 Anon. Updated [Narrative]
12-Oct-2018 12:09 Nepa Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
05-Feb-2020 15:14 stehlik49 Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]
18-Jun-2022 13:43 Ron Averes Updated [Location]
18-Jun-2022 13:43 Ron Averes Updated [[Location]]

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