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Date: | Sunday 17 August 1941 |
Time: | 02:15 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk IC |
Owner/operator: | 99 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | X9700 |
MSN: | LN-B |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Ophoven hamlet, Roggel, Limburg -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridge |
Destination airport: | RAF Waterbeach |
Narrative:Mission : Duisburg. Took off from RAF Waterbeach at 2334 hrs. Shot down by a night-fighter (Lt Hans-Dieter Frank I./NJG1) and crashed 0215 hrs near Roggel (Limburg) 9 km NW of Roermond Holland. Those who died were buried at Venlo, but since 1945 their bodies have been taken to Jonkerbos War Cemetery.
Crew
Plt Off G L Wells RAAF (KIA)
Plt Off N Dotchin (KIA)
Plt Off W A Casey RCAF (KIA)
Sgt F W York (KIA)
Sgt R M Williams (POW)
Flt Sgt P Williams (KIA)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1197&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
Royal Air Force bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 120.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
06-May-2016 07:54 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
01-Nov-2018 09:23 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
13-Mar-2020 17:02 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location, Source] |
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