Stirling R9168 Mk. l - Bombing Diepholz Germany - 1942-12-15 to 1942-12-16
Squadron: 15 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1942-12-15
Completion Date: 1942-12-16
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Diepholz Germany
Target Specific: Aerodrome
Base: RAF Bourne
Take Off Time: 17:25
Squadron Code: LS-T
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Netherlands
Crash Specifics: Gortel, Gelderland
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: flakfighter
Flak Battery: unspecified
Enemy Claim: Leutnant Werner Rapp & Unteroffizier Hans Ortmann of the 7/NJG 1
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#15 Squadron RAF (Aim Sure) RAF Bourne. Stirling I aircraft R9168 LS-T, on an operation to bomb the airfield at Diepholz, Germany, was repeatedly hit by flak before being intercepted by the night fighter crew of Leutnant Werner Rapp & Unteroffizier Hans Ortmann of 7/NJG 1 and shot down. The Stirling crashed into woods East of Gortel near Epe, Netherlands

Pilot Officer Emerson Harvey Kieswetter (RCAF), Pilot Officer Russell Neal Holmes (RCAF) , Pilot Officer Hugh Ernest Hill (RCAF)(USA), Pilot Officer Frank Severne Millen (RCAF)(USA), Sergeant Grantley Charles George Hutton (RAF) and Sergeant Robert Hugh McKillop (RNZAF) were all killed in action

Sergeant James Frederick Perring (RAF) survived and was taken as Prisoner of War

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