Date:	Tuesday 12 August 1941
Time:	13:18
Type:	Bristol Blenheim Mk IV
Owner/operator:	139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF
Registration:	V6261
MSN:	XD-M
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	mouth of the Westerschelde off Breskens, Zeeland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Oulton, Norfolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Blenheim V6261/M: Took off at 09:49 hrs for an operation against the Knapsack power station at Hürth in Nordrhein-Westfalen (Ger.) 12/08/1941
Action brought a heavy loss, not only to 139 Sqdn RAF. In total of the 54 aircraft despatched 12 Blenheims and 6 escorting Spitfires were lost. No. 139 Sqdn lost 3 aircraft with 7 airmen killed and 2 made prisoner of war.
Close to the Dutch coast Blenheim V6261 was intercepted and shot down by German fighters. The aircraft crashed into the North Sea off the coast of Holland.
Crew:
Sgt (954085) George BENTON (WOp/AG) RAFVR - killed
P/O (61999) Courtney Claude Orwin GEORGE (Obs.) RAF - killed
F/O (NZ401763) George Alexander HERBERT (Pilot) RNZAF - killed

1.https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl.
2.AIR81/8256
3.LW Claims by Michael Balss
4.Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941.
5.http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Jagdgeschwader/JG26.htm

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
03-May-2016 20:19	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
23-Dec-2017 16:15	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
11-Jan-2018 18:44	XindelX	Updated [Operator]
26-Sep-2018 08:50	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]
19-Feb-2020 20:58	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Source, Narrative]
19-Feb-2020 21:38	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative]