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Date: | Saturday 17 January 1942 |
Time: | 23:17 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk IC |
Owner/operator: | 311 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | T2971 |
MSN: | KX-J |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Zandstraat, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF East Wretham, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:During the night of 17-18 January 1942, the RAF Bomber Command sent 119 bombers over Europe. The main objective for the night was Bremen, the target of 83 aircraft, but only 8 crew claimed to have bombed the primary target. Some of the bombers attacking alternative targets bombed Hamburg that reported 11 fires, 5 dead and 12 injured. Three Wellingtons did not return from this raid, a Whitley was lost in a raid on Emden and a Stirling crashed in England after being fired at and damaged by a British convoy.
The Wellington IC T2971 KX-J of 311 (Czech) Sqn RAF took off at 18:00 from East Wretham to take part to the Bremen raid. It was damaged by flak over the target and crashed on the way back at 23:17 just to the northeast of Tilburg, near the Zandstraat. Three crew were killed and the three survivors were captured.
Crew:
Sgt Jindřich Svoboda (pilot) - KIA
Sgt Zdenek Sichrovsky - POW
P/O Jaromir Brož (navigator) - KIA
Sgt Rudolf Mašek (wireless operator/air gunner) - KIA
Sgt Karel Batelka - POW
Sgt Josef Schneider (Šnajdr) - POW
Sources:
https://en.valka.cz/topic/view/77/title/311-perut-ceskoslovenska https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1381&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= https://fcafa.com/2011/10/23/not-forgotten-holland/ "Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 3: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1942", by W R Chorley. ISBN 0-904597-89-X
"The Bomber Command War Diaries", by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt, ISBN 1-85780-033-8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilburg http://www.maplandia.com/netherlands/noord-brabant/tilburg/ RAF Prisoners of War.
ORB 311 Sqdn RAF
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17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
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17-Jan-2017 10:10 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
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16-Oct-2017 08:29 |
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01-Nov-2017 19:47 |
Red Dragon |
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Red Dragon |
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Nepa |
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30-Dec-2017 09:49 |
TigerTimon |
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03-Jan-2018 17:49 |
Nepa |
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02-Nov-2019 09:41 |
TigerTimon |
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