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Date: | Wednesday 6 May 1942 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 150 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | X3407 |
MSN: | JN-A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea probably off Texel, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Snaith |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:25 hrs for an operation to Stuttgart in Germany & failed to return. Four crew members are missing in action:
Pilot:1056285 Sgt Ronald Sample Bell - Texel (Den Burg) General Cemetery Plot K Row 6 Grave 121.
2nd Pilot:1375238 Stanley Harry Heslop - Bergen General Cemetery Plot 1. Row B. Grave 5.
Navigator:R/76971 Sgt Erlyn Everard Kirby RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 105
Bomb Aimer:1060247 Sgt Robert Watson Stewart - Runnymede Memorial Panel 94
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:1313271 Sgt Percy Walter Wrighting - Runnymede Memorial Panel 97.
Air Gunner:1060557 Sgt William Gordon Kennerley - Runnymede Memorial Panel 87.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1500&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/bell-ronald.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
04-May-2017 15:08 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
20-Dec-2017 15:29 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
20-Dec-2017 15:31 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
31-Oct-2018 14:04 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Phase, Destination airport, Operator] |
20-Apr-2020 09:27 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
22-Jun-2022 09:02 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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