ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53112
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| Date: | Saturday 11 October 1941 |
| Time: | 03:25 |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 12 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | W5379 |
| MSN: | PH-O |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near the lighthouse at Haamstede, Zeeland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Binbrook |
| RAF Binbrook |
Took off from RAF Binbrook at 00:20 hrs for a bombing operation to Köln in Germany.
The aircraft was limping home on one engine and crashed 03:25 hrs at Haamstede. Those who died are buried in Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery:
Crew:-
Pilot : P/O Douglas William Drummond Faint RAFVR 89791 (NCO:905659) [Killed]
Obs : P/O Garth Campbell Frew RAFVR 63087 (NCO:978518) [Killed]
W/Op/AG : Sgt Alfred John Childs RCAF R/68206 [Killed]
W/Op/AG : Sgt Kenneth Herbert Price RAFVR 1100588 [Killed]
Crew : Sgt William George Morton RAF 1376858 [PoW]
Crew : P/O Wilfred Arthur Wise RAFVR 67076 (NCO:1064169) [PoW]
P/O Wise was involved with the air bellows ventilation system for the Great Escape, Stalag Luft III, Zagan, and postwar gained an MBE.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1288&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 156.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 26 July 1942 | Z8591 | 12 Sqn RAF | 1 | Bunschoten (Utrecht) - Nijkerk (Gelderland) | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 10-May-2016 16:53 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Nov-2017 09:20 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 18-Oct-2018 19:07 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 04-Apr-2020 18:17 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Oct-2022 07:51 | Anon. | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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