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3/4 June 1942 Wellington Mk III - X3635 - KO-J |
Shot down at 0406 hrs. by Ofw Georg Klever, flying ME110 Nightfighter, NJG/3
based at Laon/Athles airbase, Northern France.
Its believed that the a/c had a full bomb load at the time.
Source: Aircrew remembered.
170 aircraft of all standard types were dispatched on the first large raid to Bremen since October 1941.
Crews reported only indifferent bombing results but Bremen recorded this as a heavy attack,
the results of which exceeded all previous raids.
Housing areas were heavily hit with 6 streets affected by serious fires.
Damage to the U-boat construction yards and the Focke-Wulf factory is described as 'of no importance'
but there were hits in the harbour area which damaged a pier, some warehouses and the destroyer Z-25.
With 83 people dead, 29 seriously and 229 slightly injured,
this would turn out to be Bremen's third heaviest casualty toll in the war.
11 aircraft - 4 Wellingtons, 2 Halifaxes, 2 Lancasters, 2 Stirlings, 1 Manchester - lost.
Source: .nationalarchives.gov.uk - Bomber Command - Campaign Diary June 1942.
ORB. 3rd. June, 1942.
15 aircraft (7 from 'A' Flight and 8 from 'B' Flight)
took off between 2251 and 2324 hours to attack target BREMEN
and bombing from heights ranging between 10000 and 16000 feet bombs were dropped in good visibility.
Many bursts were observed and fires were started in the dock area and in the town.
A/C. T.X.3724 (Captain F/S. HUTCHISON) Wellington Mk III X3724 KO-T and
A/C. J.X.3635 (Captain P/O. WOOD) failed to return from operations.
All the remaining aircraft had returned safely to base after operations by 0525 hours.
Wood Thomas Reader Russel - Pilot
F/O - Service No 67642 - posthumously DFC 3 June 1942.
Age: 21
RAFVR
Sunday Guardian, 14 June 1942: P/O T. R. Wood,
son of the Hon’ble B. R. Wood of British Guiana,
reported missing after Bremen raid on night June 4/5 1942.
Sometime during Oct/Nov last year (1941),
he injured his shoulder when forced to bail out after petrol supply ran out.
Becklingen War Cemetery - 26. G. 12
Source: CWGC - Caribbean aircrew - ww2 - photo Find a Grave by Flipside20.
Chapman John Wynne - 2nd Pilot
F/S - Service No 41978
Age: 29 - 27?
RNZAF
Son of
Runnymede Memorial - panel 117
Source: CWGC - Photo via Aircrew remembered - Auckland museum.
Howe Leonard John - Observer
Sgt - Service No 1375874
Age: 28
RAFVR
Son of John and Ellen Louise Howe, of Lower Edmonton, Middlesex.
Runnymede Memorial - panel 86
He served time in the Marines and had "The Flying Marine"
chalked on the door of his flying locker.
Source: CWGC - 115 Squadron Roll of Honour by D. Bruce, W. R. Chorley, J. G. J. de Haan
Davies Maurice John Morris - WOP
Sgt - Service No 905368
Age: 21
RAFVR
Son of Thomas Morris Davies and Catherine Anne Davies, of Barnes, Surrey.
Runnymede Memorial - panel 81
Source: CWGC
Pearce H. B. - FG
P/O - Service No 106036
Age:
RAFVR
POW - No 556 Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Poland.
Try to escape. Ended up 3 years in a prison camp.
Source: More info on Aircrew Remembered
Wischhusen Benjamin Francis - RG
Sgt - Service No 751991
Age: 27
RAFVR
Son of Benjamin John and Francis Ellen (nee Ellam) Wisch(h)usen,
of Boscombe, Hampshire.
Husband of May (nee Smith) Wisch(h)usen, of Enfield, Middlesex.
Runnymede Memorial - panel 97
Source: CWGC - Photo via Aircrew remembered.