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 Den 18. maj 1942 kl. 01.57 styrtede
STI R9320 i Østersøen
(måske omkring
her) i
forbindelse med minelægning i den sydlige del af Øresund, omkring
her.
Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
"60 fly foretog mineringer ved de frisiske øer samt i den vestlige del af
Østersøen. 5 Stirlings og 2 Wellingtons gik tabt. Under indflyvning til
selve mineringsområdet
blev flyet ramt af flak fra
»Wache Rödby« (49 skud), »Wache Kappel« (25 skud) og »S-Hafen Rödby« (50
skud), hvorefter det styrtede ned nogle km SV for Rødby."
(FT 86-87-5)
Se
Minelægningsområder *
p082MACR *
Short Stirling.
(Antallet af skud kan kun være affyrede skud ud fra tyske rapporter. Antallet af
træffere må være meget mindre!)
Flight Sergeant James Michael Wootton, 22
år, var søn af John Thomas Wootton og Phoebe Wootton; gift med Stella Wootton,
Herne Bay, Kent, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er
på Panel 77 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere,
der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
2 flyvere fra
STI R9320 har ingen kendt grav. 5 flyvere blev
ført til
Tyske krigsfangelejre.
7 flyvere.
 On 18 May 1942 at 01:57
STI R9320 crashed into the Baltic Sea (maybe about
here) in
connection with a minelaying operation in the Øresund, about
here.
(Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:
"60 planes were on minelaying operations at the Frisian Islands and in the
western part of the Baltic Sea. 5 Stirlings and 2 Wellingtons were lost. On its
way to its
target this plane was hit by flak from »Wache Rödby« (49 shots), »Wache Kappel« (25 shots)
and »S-Hafen Rödby« (50 shots). Then it crashed some kilometres
south west of Rødby." (FT 86-87-5)
See
Minelaying areas.
(The number of shots can only be shots fired according to German reports. The
number of hits must be far less!)
Flight Sergeant James Michael Wootton, 22,
was the son of John Thomas Wootton and Phoebe Wootton, and the husband of Stella
Wootton, of Herne Bay, Kent, United Kingdom.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 269.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 77, among more than 20,000
airmen who have no known grave. (Source:
CWGC)
2 airmen from
STI R9320 have no known grave. 5 airmen were
taken to
German POW-Camps.
See No. 149
Squadron RAF - Wikipedia *
Stirling * p082MACR
Stirling I R9320 OJ-S took off from
RAF Lakenheath
on 17 MAY 1942. (Source: Aircrew
Remembered has
this.) 7 airmen.
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