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29th July 1940
Stab I./JG51 Hauptmann Erwin Aichele. Messerschmitt Bf109E-4. Crashed and burned out at Wissant following combat with Spitfires of Nos.41 and 64 Squadrons and Hurricanes of Nos.56 and 501 Squadrons during escort sortie for Ju87s over the Channel south-east of Dover 7.30 a.m.
 
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Date: Saturday 6 July 1940
Time: 03:35
Type: Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator: 99 Sqn RAF
Registration: R3170
MSN: LN-G
Fatalities: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location: Oudeweg road, Veerpolder, Haarlem, Noord-Holland - Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature: Military
Departure airport: RAF Newmarket, Suffolk
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Vickers Wellington Mk.Ic R3170 (LN-G) 99 Squadron, RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed (shot down) on combat operations on 6 July 1940. Of the five crew, one was killed, and the other four were captured and taken as PoWs. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/1026): "Wellington R3170 crashed at Haarlem, The Netherlands, 5-6 July 1940. Sergeant G F Sexton: report of death. Sergeant K A R MacArthur, Sergeant C J Scanlon, Pilot Officer J W P Perkins and Pilot Officer R A G Willis: prisoners of war"

Took off from RAF Newmarket, Suffolk at 21:45 LT on the evening of 5 July 1940 for an operation to Kiel, Germany. Instead, bombed Schiphol airfield in the Netherlands as a "target of opportunity" and was hit by Flak in the process. The pilot performed an emergency landing, but the aircraft was wrecked, and one of the crew was killed.

Crew:
Pilot: Pilot Officer R A G Willis RAF 41766 (Canadian) (PoW)
Second Pilot: Pilot Officer J W P Perkins RAF 42879 (PoW)
Navigator: Sgt. K A R MacArthur RAF 747956 (PoW)
ROp./ Air Gunner: Sgt. C J Scanlon RAF 553514 (PoW)
Air Gunner Gerald Francis Sexton RAF 755373 - killed





  1. Accident Vickers Wellington Mk IC R3170, Saturday 6 July 1940
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Date: Wednesday 6 August 1941
Time:
Type: Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator: 115 Sqn RAF
Registration:
MSN:
Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location: Zuurbemde, Flemish Brabant - Belgium
Phase: Combat
Nature: Military
Departure airport: RAF Marham, UK
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Shot down during a bombing raid on targets in Germany. All six crew members survived the crash and became POW.

Vickers Wellington of the 115th RAF squadron took place at this location on the night of August 5 to 6, 1941. This aircraft with six occupants crashed here and was shot down by pilot Lieutenant Hans Redlich of the German Air Force. The six English occupants: pilot Litchfield. Pilot Jones. Sergeant Boutle. Sergeant Lawson. Sergeant Lambert and Sergeant Walker were injured. At the request of Mayor Victor Mertens, Doctor Eugene Homans went to, rie pleats var-
wounded soldiers and treated their wounds and administered morphine to the three most seriously injured. The resistance was unable to remove them in time and they were all captured by the Germans and, after receiving care in Leuven, taken to Poland as prisoners of war.

Date: Sunday 17 August 1941
Time: 01:55 LT
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V
Owner/operator: 10 Sqn RAF
Registration: Z6586
MSN: ZA-F
Fatalities: Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location: near Martenslinde, Bilzen, Limburg - Belgium
Phase: Combat
Nature: Military
Departure airport: RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 22:02 hrs for an operation to Köln, Germany.
The aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinrich Griese of the 1./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield.















  1. Accident Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V Z6586, Sunday 17 August 1941
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  3. Accident Vickers Wellington Mk IC , Wednesday 6 August 1941
 
8./LG1 Junkers Ju88A-2, L1+JS. Crashed in sea shortly after take-off from Schleswig, cause unknown. FF Uffz Ernst Falk, BO Gefr Johannes Walck, BF Obergefr Kurt Dumke, and BS Uffz Karl Dietrich all killed.
 
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German Leopold Winna
Wurger said:


The Battle of France ... not sure. Rather the the Phoney War. It's the Winter what suggests the turn of the year 1939/1940.
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I agree. I looked up were the sqdr was. Besides that dont think the French would have staged this kind of brass near the fireing line. That relaxed.
 
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