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Date: | Tuesday 12 August 1941 |
Time: | 13:20 LT |
Type: | Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 114 (Hong Kong) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z7281 |
MSN: | RT-P |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Westerschelde off Vlissingen, Zeeland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF West Raynham, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | RAF West Raynham |
Narrative:Took off from RAF West Raynham at 0910 hrs for an operation against the Knapsack power station at Hürth in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
On return, the aircraft was damaged by light Flak and by fighter pilot Oberleutnant Kurt Ruppert of the 9./JG 26 (based at Crécy-en-Ponthieu airfield in France), who was flying a Bf 109F.
Sgt Stead has no known grave, but his two companions were taken northwards by the tides and both rest in Sage War Cemetery:
Sgt D J Wheatley (KIA)
Sgt J L West (KIA)
Sgt J Stead (KIA)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1176&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 113.
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Jagdgeschwader/JG26.htm LW Claims by Michael Balss
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
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04-May-2016 06:43 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-Jan-2018 12:27 |
XindelX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
26-Sep-2018 08:49 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
19-Feb-2020 21:23 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Source, Narrative] |