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Date: | Friday 4 July 1941 |
Time: | 02:33 LT |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | P5014 |
MSN: | DY-J |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 5 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Asten - Someren, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Topcliffe |
Destination airport: | RAF Topcliffe |
Narrative:Mission-Essen. Took off from RAF Topcliffe at 2306 hrs. Over the Netherlands, coned by searchlights and shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Werner Streib of the Stab I./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield. Sgt Gibson is buried in Jonkerbos War Cemetery.
Crew
Sgt D F Gibson (KIA)
Sgt B A Cotton (POW)
Sgt A Larkin (POW)
Sgt W K H Bowden (POW)
Sgt N W Davies (POW)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1080&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 81.
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Revision history:
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17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
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24-Apr-2016 17:44 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
14-Oct-2018 17:05 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
02-Jul-2019 07:53 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
02-Jul-2019 07:54 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time] |