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Date: | Friday 17 April 1942 |
Time: | 16:05 |
Type: | Douglas DB-7B Boston Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 107 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z2255 |
MSN: | OM- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | English Channel near Cherbourg Harbour. -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Great Massingham, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | RAF Great Massingham |
Narrative:Boston Z2288: Took off at 14:36 hrs for a diversionary raid in support of Lancasters on the Augsburg Raid. 17/04/1942
Shot down by Oblt Egon Mayer 7./JG2 (Bf109). They were to raid the dock-yards of Cherbourg. Unfortunately they dropped their bombs on a railway line nearby. P/O Grills body was later found on a beach at Looe Bay Cornwall.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Frederick Herbert Ashton Ashford RAF 149853 (NCO:655543 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 09 December, 1941) [Killed]
Observer : Pilot Officer Francis Albert Grills RAFVR 106136 (NCO:1176092 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 14 October, 1941) [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Alfred Donald Gardiner RAFVR 1106543 [Killed]
Sources:
1. ORB 107 Sqdn RAF
2. CWGC
3. Bomber Command Losses 1942.
4. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Dec-2017 15:24 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
24-Jan-2018 17:07 |
XindelX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
16-Oct-2018 19:26 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
01-Jun-2020 11:36 |
rvargast17 |
Updated [Time, Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
17-Apr-2024 06:58 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |