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Date: | Sunday 11 May 1941 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk Ic |
Owner/operator: | 149 (East India) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R1512 |
MSN: | OJ-H |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:37 hrs for an operation to Hamburg, Germany.
The aircraft is lost without trace. It was possibly hit by one of these two night fighter pilots: Oberleutnant Karl-Heinz Hollborn of the 5./NJG 1 (based at Stade airfield, Germany; flying a Bf 110 E-1) or Oberfeldwebel Johann Schönherr of the 6./NJG 1 (based at Stade airfield, Germany; flying Bf 110 D-3 G9+HP).
Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant John Gilbert Keymer RAFVR 904428 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Thomas Nathan Menage RAF 518613 [Killed]
Pilot Officer George Redvers Newton Adams RAFVR 86722 (NCO:758105 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 12 November, 1940) [Killed]
Sergeant Frederick Charles Ockenden RAFVR 910417 [Killed]
Sergeant Thomas Charles Pugh RAFVR 904994 [Killed]
Sergeant Lewis George Sutherland RAFVR 976127 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
Aircrew Remembered -
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R1512 Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-May-2019 06:28 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
11-May-2019 06:42 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
12-May-2019 12:17 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
09-May-2024 07:06 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |