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Date: | Tuesday 2 June 1942 |
Time: | 00:29 LT |
Type: | Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 114 (Hong Kong) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R3620 |
MSN: | RT-A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Buschbell, Frechen, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF West Raynham, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Blenheim R3620 ("RT-A"): T/o at 22:39 hrs for an intruder mission to Venlo airfield in the Netherlands, in support of the second 1000 bomber raid (target: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen).
The aircraft fell foul of the 7. Flak Division based at Köln (Cologne). The three crew members rest at the Rheinberg War Cemetery.
Crew:-
Pilot: F/Sgt (R/61124) Patrick Bernard L'Hirondelle RCAF - killed
Observer: P/O (104574) Ronald George INGLIS (RAFVR) - killed (NCO:933580 Commission Gazetted : Friday 19 September, 1941)
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: Sgt (1359228) Henry MEAKIN (RAFVR) - killed
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft R1000-R9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1980 p 23)
2.
https://www.backtonormandy.org/component/mtree/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/blenheim/43270-RAF25532.html 3.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18407359/bernard-patrick-l_hirondelle 4.
http://aircrewremembered.com/lhirondelle-patrick.html 5.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2047900/l'hirondelle,-patrick-bernard/
6.
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2047900 7.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2047639/inglis,-ronald-george/ 8.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2048147/meakin,-henry/ 9. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three (2019)
10. Google Maps
11. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Jan-2018 13:12 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
24-Jan-2018 11:39 |
XindelX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative] |
26-Sep-2018 08:16 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
29-May-2019 02:26 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
23-Feb-2020 10:51 |
Xindel XL |
Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator] |
22-Apr-2020 19:07 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
22-Apr-2020 19:08 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
22-May-2024 08:16 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |