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Date: | Tuesday 14 July 1942 |
Time: | 03:30 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 150 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | X3797 |
MSN: | JN-A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Tannington Suffolk -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Snaith |
Destination airport: | Duisburg |
Narrative:The weather was very bad with cloud, severe icing and thunderstorms. The icing became so bad that Sgt Sykes decided to abandon the mission and the bomb load was jettisoned. He was attempting to reach RAF Martlesham Heath but the aircraft at Tannington 03:30.
Crew
Pilot:1285683 Sgt John David Wilson Sykes - City of London Cemetery and Crematorium Manor Park Square 18. Grave 110355.
Navigator: Sgt F Mellis - Injured
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:1311019 Sgt John William Calvert - Hither Green Cemetery Sec. G.G. Grave 145.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:934086 Sgt Lionel Frederick Perry - Old Ipswich Cemetery Sec. C. Div. 31. Grave 37.
Sgt J Moffatt - Injured
Plt Off Hayes - Injured
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses 1942
CWGC
Find A Grave
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Feb-2018 20:57 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
31-Oct-2018 14:09 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
31-Oct-2018 14:18 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
07-Jun-2019 19:24 |
Anon. |
Updated [Destination airport, Narrative] |
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