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Date: | Wednesday 15 January 1941 |
Time: | 22:46 |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 58 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N1521 |
MSN: | GE-J |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Zwanenwater (lake), Callantsoog, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Crew:
Pilot : Pilot Officer William Edgar Peers RAFVR 88011 [Killed] (NCO:742033 Commission Gazetted : Friday 20 December, 1940)
2nd Pilot : Sergeant Howard Piper Shipley RAFVR 742481 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Pilot Officer Melville Percy Griffiths RAFVR 81939 [Killed] (NCO:748169 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 06 August, 1940)
Front Gunner : Sergeant Robert James Couser DFM RAFVR 965050 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Robert Fortune Jamieson Duncan RAF 641010 [Killed]
Took off from RAF Linton-on-Ouse @ 1755 hrs for an operation to Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Heard on W/T @ 2145 hrs but shot down by a night-fighter (Oblt Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weissenfeld, 4./NJG 1, flying Bf 110C G9+EM from Bergen airfield) and crashed at 2246 hrs between the Zwanenwater lake and Callantsoog (Noord Holland), below the Den Helder, Holland. It is further reported that the night-fighter was being radar-controlled by Lt Jauk at Station Hering not far from Den Helder.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=&date=&location=&pn=N1521&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
http://www.nfla.nl/N1521.html Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941.
book 'Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd'
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
24 September 1940 |
N1470 |
58 Sqn RAF |
3 |
New Farm, ½ a mile north of RAF Linton on Ouse, England |
|
w/o |
8 September 1941 |
Z6836 |
58 Sqn RAF |
5 |
west of Neuenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen (claim location) |
|
w/o |
27 December 1941 |
Z9210 |
58 Sqn RAF |
5 |
Repelerstraße street in Moers, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
02-Sep-2014 13:09 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
18-Mar-2016 19:42 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
26-Mar-2016 19:07 |
HB |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport] |
11-Jan-2019 12:05 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
11-Jan-2019 12:06 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
20-Jun-2022 22:15 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
15-Jan-2024 07:52 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |