Date:	Sunday 19 May 1940
Time:	01:55 LT
Type:	Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V
Owner/operator:	51 Sqn RAF
Registration:	N1408
MSN:	MH-K
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Kolenfeld, Wunstorf, Niedersachsen -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Dishforth
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 20:20 LT for an operation to an oil refinery plant at Hannover.
Over Germany, hit by Flak of the 2./Reserve-Flak-Abteilung 521 and crashed.

Crew:-
Pilot : Squadron Leader William Henry Nigel Turner DFC RAF 26216 [PoW]
Observer : Flying Officer Anthony Colin Peach RAF 40256 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant DonaldJames Ross Wilson RAF 580878 [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Douglas Sydney Edmondson RAF 543850 [PoW]
Rear Gunner : Aircraftman 2nd Class George B Smith RAF 621323 [PoW]

AC2 Smith was sent Heydekrug POW Camp while the rest of the crew were sent to Sagan.

http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1940%20sec_tcm5-7281.pdf
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 1 1939-1940 page 130 Second Edition
Author:- W R Chorley.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=N1408
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

From the archives of the late Robert Dixon and passed to me by his widow

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
19-Jun-2013 11:13	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
11-Mar-2016 15:54	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Jul-2019 18:14	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
26-Jan-2021 19:48	thunderbird167	Updated [Country, Photo]
19-Oct-2021 18:34	Anon.	Updated [Narrative]
15-May-2024 06:40	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]
03-Jul-2024 19:38	donwilson594	Updated [Narrative]