Accident Vickers Wellington Mk IC W5665,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53353
 
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Date:Thursday 19 June 1941
Time:01:58 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator:300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration: W5665
MSN: BH-M
Fatalities:Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Waddenzee off Ameland, Friesland -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Swinderby
Destination airport:RAF Swinderby
Narrative:
Mission-Bremen. Took off from RAF Swinderby at 2202 hrs. Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Paul Gildner of the 4./NJG 1, who was flying Do 215 B-5 G9+NM from Leeuwarden airfield. Crashed 01:58 hrs into the Wanddenzee near Ameland. Sgt Domanski and Sgt Bankowski were first buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery at Nes, both now lie in Jonkerbos War Cemetery:

Sgt W Paleniczek +
Sgt J Domanski +
Plt Off W Cebrzynski pow
Sgt S Winek pow
Sgt W Sieczka +
Sgt PR Bankowski +

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1065&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 68.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
14-Apr-2016 19:11 Red Dragon Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
17-Feb-2018 16:53 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport]
17-Jun-2019 20:06 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
18-Jun-2019 02:41 stehlik49 Updated [Operator]
04-Nov-2019 07:14 Anon. Updated [Operator, Operator]
12-Jun-2022 10:02 Ron Averes Updated [Location]

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