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Date: | Friday 12 April 1940 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk 1c |
Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | P9284 |
MSN: | KO-J |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Stavanger-Sola Airfield, Stavanger, Rogaland -
Norway
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Marham, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | RAF Marham, Norfolk |
Narrative:Vickers Wellington Mk.1c P9284 (KO-J) of 115 Squadron RAF: Lost/failed to return from combat operations on night of 11/12 April 1940. Took off from RAF Marham, Norfolk at 18.00 with Stavanger-Sola Airfield, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway, as the target. Shot down by Flak/AAA in target area, all six crew killed
Pilot Officer (Pilot) Frederick Edward Barber, RAF 36223, 115 Sqn., age 26, 12/04/1940, Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway
Pilot Officer (Pilot) David Alexander Rankin, RAF 36180 (New Zealand), 115 Sqn., age 25, 12/04/1940, Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway
Sergeant (Observer) Alan Sydney Pearce, RAF 580805, 115 Sqn., age 20, 12/04/1940, Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway
Sergeant Geoffrey William James Juby, RAF 514904, 115 Sqdn., age 28, 12/04/1940, Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway
Leading Aircraftman Lionel Allen Westcott, RAF 545537, 115 Sqdn., age 21, 12/04/1940, Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway
Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Peter Edward Tucker Bull, RAFVR 76004, 115 Sqdn., age 26, 12/04/1940, Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway (NCO:759166 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 12 December, 1939)
Wellington P9284 was the lead aircraft in the second wave of the raid, and crashed on top of a bakery in Stavanger. Other sources say that P9284 crashed on top of Storhaug School in Stavanger, killing two (or three) civilians in the building
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 52)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/121:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14141956 3. Coastal Dawn: Blenheims in Action from the Phoney War through the Battle of Britain By Andrew Bird p 43
4.
http://www.oldhaltonians.co.uk/pages/rememb/ROH/20.htm 5.
https://wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/view.php?uid=221410 6.
http://boredhistorian.blogspot.com/2015/09/target-stavanger-1141940.html 7.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-416-wellington-ic-stavanger-6-killed 8.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186862/barber,-frederick-edward/ 9.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186890/rankin,-david-alexander/ 10.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186888/pearce,-alan-sydney/ 11.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186881/juby,-geoffrey-william-james/ 12.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186902/westcott,-lionel-allen/ 13.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186868/bull,-peter-edward-tucker/ 14. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Jun-2019 18:20 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
07-Jun-2019 18:26 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date] |
08-Jun-2019 10:40 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
11-Apr-2024 06:33 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |