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Date: | Friday 27 February 1942 |
Time: | 22:37 |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 77 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z6943 |
MSN: | KN-A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea 10 km north of Langeoog island (Niedersachsen) -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - Wilhelmshaven (Scharnhorst).
Claimed by Ofw Siegfried Ney 5./NJG 2 - sea 10 km north of Langeoog.
All the crew are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial:
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Donald Atherton Irving RAAF Aus/402359 [Killed]
Sergeant Hubert Waddy Blackmore RAFVR 1195088 [Killed]
Sergeant John Lewis Stanley Price RAFVR 930432 [Killed]
Sergeant Peter William Lindsey Strachan RAFVR 580467 [Killed]
Sergeant Donald Unsworth RAFVR 1057891 [Killed]
Sources:
Bomber Command losses 1942
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Nov-2017 21:02 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
11-Nov-2018 14:18 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
15-Feb-2022 10:01 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Date, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
23-May-2023 05:35 |
Anon. |
Updated |
27-Feb-2024 08:58 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |