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Date: | Monday 30 September 1940 |
Time: | 23:19 LT |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 10 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | T4130 |
MSN: | ZA-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Badbergen, 23 km WSW Vechta; Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Leeming (EGXE) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 18:04 hrs local time for an operation against Berlin.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Werner Streib & Unteroffizier Theo Lingen of the 2./NJG 1, who were flying a Bf 110 from Vechta airfield.
Those who did not survive rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft T1000 - V9999, published 1997
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=T4130 Google Maps
crash site was found and located by the historian Volker Urbansky
v.urbansky@t-online.de Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Jan-2012 07:18 |
Uli Elch |
Added |
24-Sep-2020 14:44 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Date, Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |