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Date: | Saturday 11 April 1942 |
Time: | 01:29 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk IC |
Owner/operator: | 214 (Federated Malay States) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | HF856 |
MSN: | BU- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Gelsenkirchen-Hüllen, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Stradishall, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
Narrative:Crashed at Gelsenkirchen-Hüllen where the crew were originally buried on 15 April 1942. All are now buried in the Reichswald Forest Memorial Site in Germany.
Crew
Pilot: 10443 Plt Off James Walter Murray - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 19. F. 4 (NCO:915379 Commission Gazetted : Friday 19 September, 1941)
Pilot: R/679 Flt Sgt Harry Alyn Neal (American) RCAF - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 19. F. 1.
Navigator: 925051 Sgt Cyril Walter Penny - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 19. F. 5.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 922516 Sgt Fred Bonser - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 19. F. 6.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner 1308039 Sgt David Smith - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 19. F. 2.
Air Gunner 179138 Capt Harold MacRae Butterworth Royal Artillery - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 19. F. 3.
Due to the losses that RAF Bomber Command that had occurred especially Air Gunners, RA officers were attached to RAF Squadrons
Sources:
CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
01-Dec-2017 18:18 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
29-Jun-2018 09:17 |
ehren69 |
Updated [Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
04-Oct-2018 14:35 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
03-Nov-2019 11:19 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Operator] |
17-Apr-2020 18:26 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source] |
10-Apr-2024 06:56 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |