Squadron: (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1942-01-06
Completion Date: 1942-01-06
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Brest France
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Base: Feltwell
Take Off Time: 5 :20
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31 Wellingtons of I Group attacked the German warships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. I aircraft lost. No special bombing results were claimed but a bomb which fell alongside the Gneisenau holed the hull and flooded 2 compartments.source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
57 Squadron (Corpus Non Animum Muto). Wellington aircraft Z 1096 took off 0520 6 Jan 1942 from Feltwell and crashed 0530 into Home Field at Holmebrink Farm at nearby Methwold. a fire broke out on impact and the Wellington was destroyed.
Flight Sergeant D R Richardson (RCAF), Sergeant R L Simmons,(RAF) Sergeant E Ewings,(RAF) Sergeant L J Roe,(RAF Sergeant V H Mountstephens:(RAF killed; Pilot Officer S H Carter (RAF): injured.
