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Date: | Saturday 27 December 1941 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 58 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z9210 |
MSN: | GE-J |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Repelerstraße street in Moers, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 16:57 hrs local time for an operation to Düsseldorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and hit by heavy Flak.
The crew members all rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=Z9210 Google Maps
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