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Date: | Tuesday 18 February 1941 |
Time: | |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 1419 (Special Duties) Flt RAF |
Registration: | T4264 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Cognelee, Namur -
Belgium
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Stradishall, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | RAF Stradishall |
Narrative:The aircraft was engaged in dropping a Belgian Special Intelligence Services agent into Belgium. Shot down by light flak from 200 feet.
The aircraft shot down and crashed at Namur, Belgium, 18/02/1941.
Crew:-
Pilot : Squadron Leader Francis John Baptist Keast RAF 28090 [PoW]
Flying Officer Eric Neil Baker RAF 41651 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 31 October, 1939) [PoW]
Sergeant David Harold Bernard RAF 966856 [PoW]
Sergeant Archibald John Cameron RAF 517909 [PoW]
Sergeant D W Davies RAF 904254 [PoW]
Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Stanley McMurdie RAF 43832 (NCO:580024 : Commission Gazetted Friday 19 September, 1941) [PoW]
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses, Volume 8, page 1941
POW list
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Jun-2023 13:52 |
Nepa |
Updated |
17-Feb-2024 07:25 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |