ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53332
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| Date: | Thursday 3 July 1941 |
| Time: | 01:03 |
| Type: |  Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | 78 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | Z6558 |
| MSN: | EY- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Itteren, Maastricht, Limburg -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St George, County Durham |
The crew were briefed to attack Koln. The ATD of the aircraft from RAF Middleton St. George, County Durham was 2324
After carrying out its bomb run Z6558/EY-H was coned by searchlights, intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Reinhold Knacke of the 2./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield. The aircraft crashed at Itteren (Limburg) 5km N of Maastricht, Holland at 0103
Pilot Sgt A. Jepson +
2nd Pilot P/O G.M. Kennedy +
Observer Sgt G.A. Avory +
Wireless Operator Sgt J.F. Hollingworth +
The crew are all buried in the Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
No record of a fifth crewmember exists in the ORB. It is therefore assumed that either the Observer or Wireless Operator would have doubled up as an Air Gunner
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
Nobody Unprepared - History of 78 Sqn Vernon Holland
4 Group Bomber Command - Chris Ward
Chorley's BCL
Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 July 1940 | N1487 | 78 Sqn RAF | 5 | near Sprakel (Münster) and Gimbte (Greven), Nordrhein-Westfalen |  |
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| 2 October 1940 | P4964 | 78 Sqn RAF | 5 | Hessenweg road, Hummelo, Gelderland | |
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| 9 January 1941 | T4203 | 78 Sqn RAF | 5 | Ubbergen, Gelderland | |
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| 19 June 1941 | Z6560 | 78 Sqn RAF | 4 | North Sea 90 km northeast of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England |  |
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| 30 June 1941 | Z6664 | 78 Sqn RAF | 5 | North Sea NNW of Ameland, Friesland | |
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| 8 November 1941 | Z9151 | 78 Sqn RAF | 1 | Rhinow, Brandenburg | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 18-Oct-2013 19:42 | Anon. | Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Jul-2019 08:06 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Jul-2019 08:07 | TigerTimon | Updated [Source] |
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