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Date: | Saturday 29 August 1942 |
Time: | 02:52 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 156 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | X3728 |
MSN: | GT-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Perk, Steenokkerzeel, Flemish Brabant -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Warboys, Huntingdonshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 20:26 hrs local time for an operation to Nürnberg in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Ehle & Oberfeldwebel Leidenbach of the Stab II./NJG 1, who were flying Bf 110 F-4 G9+AC from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield.
The five crew members rest in the Heverlee War Cemetery at Leuven.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=X3728 Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
20-May-2020 15:15 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
07-Nov-2022 01:45 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |