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Date: | Thursday 30 July 1942 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 150 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BJ881 |
MSN: | JN- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Pihen-lès-Guînes, Pas-de-Calais département -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Snaith |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:40 hrs for an operation to Saarbrücken in Germany.
The aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Sgt. D.A. York is buried in the Netherlands:
Pilot:39497 Sqn Ldr Lionel Rees Cohen - Pihen-les-Guines War Cemetery 1 A 6
Observer:112553 Plt Off Herbert John Ivory - Pihen-les-Guines War Cemetery 1 A 4
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:1326506 Sgt Desmond Albert York - Flushing (Vlissingen) Northern Cemetery Row C Grave 22.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:1260203 Sgt Alfred James Pihen-les-Guines War Cemetery 1 A 2
Air Gunner:1202337 Sgt Joseph Frank Whittaker - Pihen-les-Guines War Cemetery 1 A 3
Sources:
http://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/item2.php?SGLO=T1733A http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=871 Google Maps
CWGC
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
11-Aug-2017 09:12 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
24-Feb-2018 14:40 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Location, Source, Narrative] |
31-Oct-2018 14:12 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
12-May-2020 21:40 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
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