Date:	Tuesday 14 July 1942
Time:	03:20
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk III
Owner/operator:	115 Sqn RAF
Registration:	X3560
MSN:	KO-K
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Nijnsel - Sint-Oedenrode; Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 00:35 hrs for an operation to Duisburg in Germany.
Whilst flying at 23,000 feet over Dortmund in Germany, the plane was hit by Flak which crippled the starboard engine. The aircraft was then attacked by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Dr. Horst Patuschka of the 8./NJG 2 based at Gilze-Rijen airfield - (claim) Nijnsel (St Oedenrode). The aircraft lost height and was abandoned near Nijnsel. The five crew members were taken prisoner:

Pilot:R/79662 Sgt Henry Delmar Mooney RCAF PoW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. PoW Number 24959
Observer:1251735 Sgt Donald Bruce PoW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. PoW Number No 24962
Bomb Aimer:1219889 Sgt William W McK Margerisson PoW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. PoW Number 24960
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:115314 Plt Off William H A Hancock PoW Stalag Luft 3 Zagan & Belaria. PoW Number 9469
Air Gunner:637565 Sgt Ronald J E Esling PoW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf PoW Number 24961- Whilst at Lamsdorf he exchanged identity with 2878786 L/Cpl E Lawrence Royal Artillery PoW Number 220924.

http://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/item2.php?SGLO=T1692
https://www.bhic.nl/ontdekken/verhalen/neergestorte-vliegtuigen-in-sint-oedenrode-1940-1945
RAF Prisoner of War
115 Squadron Association.
Germany and German Occupied Territories Imperial Prisoners of War Alphabetical List Section 1 - British Army
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
Google Maps

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

30 September 1940	T2549	115 Sqn RAF	4	Talge, Bersenbrück, Niedersachsen		w/o
17 November 1940	P9286	115 Sqn RAF	6	Groetpolder, Winkel, Noord-Holland		w/o
28 April 1942	X3639	115 Sqn RAF	4	Köln-Niehl, Neusser Landstr.		w/o
7 May 1942	X3591	115 Sqn RAF	2	Siefersheim, Rheinland-Pfalz		w/o
27 July 1942	BJ670	115 Sqn RAF	2	North Sea 10 km N of Schiermonnikoog, Friesland		w/o
25 October 1942	BK306	115 Sqn RAF	5	North Sea near Goedereede, Zuid-Holland		w/o
Ditching

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
17-Jul-2015 11:42	gerard57	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
26-Sep-2015 05:20	T.T.Taylor	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport]
17-Jul-2017 09:13	TigerTimon	Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
12-Feb-2018 17:44	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative]
12-Feb-2018 19:09	Red Dragon	Updated [Source, Narrative]
28-Oct-2018 17:03	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]
06-May-2020 09:41	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]