ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52947
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Date: | Thursday 26 March 1942 |
Time: | 22:27 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z1269 |
MSN: | BH-L |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Balgzand, Waddenzee, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:40 hrs local time for an operation to Essen in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weissenfeld of the 5./NJG 2, who had taken off from Bergen airfield.
Four of the crew rest at Bergen op Zoom war cemetery in Noord-Brabant:
Pilot: P/76733 Fg Off Bogumil Zelazinski - +
2nd Pilot P/1629 Plt Off Boleslaw Uszolewicz - +
Observer:P/1001 Fg Off Franciszek Jakukowski - +
Wireless Operator: 780881 Sgt Kwiecinski +
Air Gunner: 792834 Sgt Teofil Niemeczek +
Air Gunner: P/793106 Sgt Wladyslaw Stachurski - +
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1455&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942
Krzystek's List
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
25-Mar-2017 09:25 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
19-Nov-2017 19:00 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
17-Feb-2018 16:58 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
05-Feb-2020 14:58 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
15-Apr-2020 18:03 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
20-Jun-2022 22:06 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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