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Date: | Saturday 26 July 1941 |
Time: | 05:25 LT |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 7 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N6035 |
MSN: | MG-A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near the Jillesweg road, Ouddorp, Zuid-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Oakington |
Narrative:Mission - Berlin. Took off from RAF Oakington at 2250 hrs.
The pilots were struggling to get home with battle damage and fuel shortage and in the end, they were hit by Marine Flak.
Crew:
Flt Lt M C G Sherwood (POW)
Sgt W P Wood (POW)
Sgt B A A Fowler (POW)
Flt Lt G M Fuller (POW)
Sgt R I Stone (POW)
Sgt T F M Williams (POW)
Sgt D C Allan RNZAF (POW)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1143&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Google Maps
royal Air Force Bomber Command losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 102.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
02-May-2016 19:41 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
12-Nov-2018 16:43 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
26-Jul-2019 17:45 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |