Whitley Z6729 V - Bombing Cologne Germany - 1941-08-16 to 1941-08-17
Squadron: 58 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1941-08-16
Completion Date: 1941-08-17
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Cologne Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Linton-on-Ouse
Take Off Time: 23:44:00
Squadron Code: GE-T
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Netherlands
Crash Specifics: Breda - Zundert, Noord-Brabant
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: Oberleutnant Willi Dimter 1/NJG1
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51 Squadron RAF Linton-on-Ouse. Whitley V aircraft Z 6729 GE-T was shot down by night- fighter pilot Oberleutnant Willi Dimter 1/NJG1 during an operation against targets in Cologne, Germany. The bomber crashed near Diaconessen Hospital at Breda - Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands with the entire crew surviving to become Prisoners of War

Flight Sergeant John Bayman Nickerson (RCAF), Sergeant Sidney Frederick Davidson (RAFVR), Sergeant Bernard Agur Hammond (RAFVR), Sergeant Terrance Anthony Nichols (RAFVR) and Sergeant Ronald Denis Wagstaff (RAFVR) all survived to become Prisoners of War

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 13 July 1941 - 29 May 1942 The early Years Part 2 by Theo Boiten, page 30

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