ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 70922
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| Date: | Friday 14 May 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | DK302 |
| MSN: | XD-S |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Missing -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Marham, Norfolk |
Mosquito DK302/S: Took off at 22:30 hrs for an bombing raid over Berlin. 13/05/1943
Claims for a Mosquito damaged by Feldwebel Eberhard Brandt, who caught sight of a fast-moving aircraft over Finsterwalde while flying Bf 109 G-6 ""Yellow 2"" of Hajo Hermanns Nachtjagd Versuchskommando at 01:12 hrs on the 14th, at an altitude of 7,000m. Brandt followed the aircraft as it headed towards the southeastern part of Berlin and at 01:30 hrs opened fire on a small twin-engine machine that was weaving in a northerly direction at a height of 6,500m. ""I saw three strikes on the wings of the Englishman. I fired the cowl machine guns and a stream of tracers converged in the darkness in front of me, where I thought the British plane would be. Again I saw a strike much further off, then everything was swallowed up by the night. Five seconds later I flew through condensation trails curving up and off to the left. I'm convinced this was the Mosquito and was damaged Brandt's combat report claimed. Two flak units near Lübecku at 00:41 hrs 14/05/1943 reported claims for Mosquitos. The flak claim is the more likely. The Mosquito's wreckage was never found.
Crew:-
F/O (109372) Stanley WILKINSON (pilot) RAFVR (NCO:986892 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 25 November, 1941)
P/O (136523) Alan Howard EADES (nav.) RAFVR (NCO:1576857 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 06 April, 1943)
Sources:
1. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
2. ORB 139 Sqdn RAF
3. CWGC
4. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Images:
Mosquito Production list showing DK302 was a B Mk IV, note Source #1 URL to confirm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Jan-2010 04:52 | NePa | Added |
| 01-Nov-2011 03:48 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Mar-2012 10:07 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport] |
| 25-Jun-2014 21:55 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Country, Narrative] |
| 14-Sep-2014 20:33 | Koumes | Updated [Location] |
| 26-Jul-2015 17:41 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 19-Sep-2015 16:19 | Jixn | Updated [Cn] |
| 29-Jan-2019 17:19 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 26-Aug-2021 17:35 | TigerTimon | Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Country, Phase, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 27-Aug-2021 18:12 | TigerTimon | Updated [Date] |
| 27-Aug-2021 18:12 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time] |
| 03-Sep-2021 12:02 | TB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Country, Phase, Source, Damage, Narrative, Operator] |
| 16-Feb-2022 20:59 | grapeshot418 | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Photo] |
| 25-Apr-2022 22:15 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 13-May-2022 06:57 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 29-May-2022 11:03 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 29-Jul-2022 06:03 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Jul-2022 16:05 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 05-Aug-2022 13:11 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Oct-2023 16:20 | Nepa | Updated [[Source, Narrative]] |
| 08-Dec-2023 13:19 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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