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Date: | Wednesday 16 September 1942 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk Ic |
Owner/operator: | 27 OTU RAF |
Registration: | N2782 |
MSN: | ?-A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Lichfield, Staffordshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:49 hrs local time for an operation against the Krupp works at Essen in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was hit by Flak of the 7. Flak-Division and crashed. All five rest in the Rheinberg War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=N2782 Google Maps
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