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Date: | Saturday 9 August 1941 |
Time: | 00:44 claim |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 10 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z6815 |
MSN: | ZA- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea off Schleswig-Holstein -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 21:54 hrs for an operation to Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein.
Probably, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Leutnant Reinhold Knacke & Unteroffizier Kurt Bundrock of the 2./NJG 1, who were flying a Bf 110.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=Z6815 Google Maps
Revision history:
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