Date:	Thursday 16 July 1942
Time:
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV
Owner/operator:	105 Sqn RAF
Registration:	W4069
MSN:	GB-M
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony. -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Horsham St.Faith, Norfolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mosquito W4069/M: Took off at 15:35 hrs for a Bombing mission to Wilhelmshaven. 16/07/1942
Crew were assigned to attack the shipyard installations in Wilhelmshaven. The weather here was bad. Crew found the target area and dropped the bombs. German sources report that two of the bombs hit the shipyard area and injured three people. AA managed to hit the Mosquito it crashed.
Crew: 
F/Lt (102979) Paul ADDINSELL (pilot) RAFVR: POW, repatriated (NCO:1153821 Commission Gazetted : Friday 05 September, 1941)
F/Lt (102148) John William Guy PAGET (obs.) RAFVR: POW (NCO:1266623 Commission Gazetted : Friday 22 August, 1941)

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.RAF Prisoners of War list
3.ORB 105 Sqdn RAF
4.Global Losses VBS Database
5.Henk Welting Database
7.Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

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south of Ankum,17 km north-north-west of Bramsche, Niedersachsen.

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
03-Jan-2010 09:54	NePa	Added
04-Jan-2010 11:19	NePa	Updated [Total fatalities, Location, Country, Narrative]
20-Mar-2011 15:39	Nepa	Updated [Phase, Narrative]
25-Jul-2011 09:50	Nepa	Updated [Departure airport, Source]
03-Jul-2013 07:52	Nepa	Updated [Departure airport, Narrative]
16-Jun-2014 09:11	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Narrative]
22-Jul-2015 08:28	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative]
06-Apr-2016 16:20	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative]
13-Feb-2018 17:14	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
13-Feb-2018 17:23	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
13-Feb-2018 19:40	Red Dragon	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative]
13-Feb-2018 19:41	Red Dragon	Updated [Narrative]
13-Feb-2018 21:05	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative]
12-Mar-2018 23:04	Red Dragon	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Narrative]
15-Jun-2018 18:58	Nepa	Updated [Destination airport]
09-Sep-2018 06:23	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator]
13-Oct-2021 18:20	Nepa	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Operator]
05-Aug-2022 13:32	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]
12-Oct-2022 07:56	Anon.	Updated [Narrative]