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COBDEN, Gerald

Aircraft Information
Aircraft Vickers Wellington III
Serial Number X3309
Markings JN-N
Memorial information
Burial/Memorial Country United Kingdom
Burial/Memorial Place Runnymede Memorial
Grave Reference Panel 73..
Epitaph
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase 2
Panel Number 146
Enlistment information
Service Number 984803
Service Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Group 1
Squadron 150
Trade Observer
Country of origin if different United Kingdom
Last Operation information
Start Date 27-06-1942
End Date 28-06-1942
Takeoff Station Snaith
Day/Night raid Night
Operation Bremen. 144 aircraft in this second of three attacks in a week on this target. Gee was used to blind-bomb through complete cloud cover. Atlas Werke and the Korff refinery were hit for a second time, the first being the Thousand Radi two days earlier.
Reason for Loss Shot down by a night-fighter flown by Uffz. Heinz Vinke and his WOp/AG, Karl Schödel, of 5./NJG2 on the out-bound leg and crashed into the IJsselmeer.