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Date: | Sunday 6 July 1941 |
Time: | 00:56 LT |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 10 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z6793 |
MSN: | ZA-Z |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Schuinesloot, Overijssel -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Leeming, Yorkshire, UK |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:48 hrs for an operation to Münster, Germany.
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Helmut Lent of the 4./NJG 1, who was flying Bf 110 D-3 G9+FM from Leeuwarden airfield.
The entire crew of four perished and is buried at the cemetery in Lutten, the Netherlands:
P/O Pilot Goulding (21)
2 Sgt. Pilot D. Morrison
3 Fl.Sgt. W.Op./A.G. R.I.H. Aird (21)
4 Sgt. W.Op./A.G. R.H. Jordan (21)
R.I.P.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1083&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
http://www.coevorden.nl/over-de-gemeente/geschiedenis/coevorden/coevorden-in-de-tweede-wereldoorlog/de-luchtoorlog-in-en-om-coevorden.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
21-Nov-2014 16:40 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
04-Jul-2019 15:44 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
08-Jul-2019 05:42 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
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