Aircraft | Vickers Wellington III |
Serial Number | X3309 |
Markings | JN-N |
Burial/Memorial Country | United Kingdom |
Burial/Memorial Place | Runnymede Memorial |
Grave Reference | Panel 73.. |
Epitaph |
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 146 |
Service Number | 984803 |
Service | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Group | 1 |
Squadron | 150 |
Trade | Observer |
Country of origin if different | United Kingdom |
Adams D E C (F/S) |
James I (Sgt) |
Osborne D O (F/O) |
Dye L R (Sgt) |
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. |