Loss Register
Day or Night of operation | Operation | Target | Nickname Aircraft | |||||
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28/29 Jul 42 | Bombing | Hamburg | ||||||
Factory | Aircraft | Mk | Serial/Wnr. | Code | Unit | Air Force | TO/t | Airfield |
Vickers | Wellington | III | BJ661 | AA-X | 75 Sqdn | RAF | 2235 | Feltwell |
Time | Cause of the Crash | Crash Location | Damage | Province |
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0304 | Shot down by Lt. W. Kuthe of 6./NJG 2 | Ditched at IJsselmeer n of Nunspeet | IJsselmeer |
Function | Mil Rank | Ini | Name | Age | Mil reg | Air Force | Fate | Cemetery | Grave | Remarks |
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Pilot | F/Sgt. | J.E. | Gilbertson | 22 | NZ41894 | RNZAF | KIA | Amsterdam NOB | 69 E 17 | |
Observer | F/Sgt. | M.J. | Byrne | 32 | NZ404529 | RNZAF | KIA | Amsterdam NOB | 69 E 18 | |
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner | Sgt. | R.P. | Callaghan | 21 | NZ411739 | RNZAF | POW | - | injured | |
Front Gunner | Sgt. | A.W. | Rutherford | 33 | NZ404572 | RNZAF | POW | - | injured | |
Rear Gunner | Sgt. | W.A. | Titcomb | 21 | 1291758 | RAF | KIA | Harderwijk | 2 15 |
Wartime Records | Background Info |
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Operations Record Book | Chorley, ‘Bomber Command Losses 1942’, page 165; Boiten, ‘Nachtjagd Combat Archive May-December 1942’, page 56 |
Version March, 2022