ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53013
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Date: | Tuesday 20 January 1942 |
Time: | 22:04 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk IC |
Owner/operator: | 101 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z1110 |
MSN: | SR-A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea NW of Terschelling, Friesland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakington |
Destination airport: | Emden |
Narrative:Shot down on return on a raid on Emden. The aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Ludwig Becker of the 6./NJG 2, who was flying Do 215 B-5 R4+AP from Leeuwarden airfield.
All the crew are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant Peter Lewis Chapman RAFVR 1376923 [Killed]
2nd Pilot : Pilot Officer Colin Hubert Curtis RAFVR 107980 [Killed] (NCO:1311049 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 11 November, 1941)
Observer : Sergeant Alan Herbert Hancox RAFVR 1256776 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Francis Ernest Dunn RAFVR 1284969 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Arthur Sidney Spackman RAFVR 1326356 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Herbert William Mantle RAFVR 1388195 [Killed]
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1385&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
16-Sep-2010 13:30 |
Simon Ludlow |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
28-Oct-2017 19:28 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
02-Jan-2018 09:38 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
09-Oct-2018 05:21 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
02-Nov-2019 10:14 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
14-Jun-2022 23:36 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
20-Jan-2024 07:46 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
20-Jan-2024 07:47 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Narrative] |
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