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RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of Antwerpen:
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Crash site of Whitley N1424-GE-P
11/07/1940

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Unit: 58 Squadron
Aircraft: Whitley
Code: N1424-GE-P
Base: Linton on Ouse
Mission: Leverkussen
Crew officer: Sgt HOPES Denis
Incident: Shot down by German Flak

Location: Antwerpen city ans suburbs (Prov. Antwerpen)

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There is no precise location of the crash

Facts

Armstrong Whitworth Whitley B.Mk.V N1424 (GE-P) 58 Squadron, RAF: Written off (presumed destroyed) when lost (Failed To Return) from combat operations over Belgium. All five crew killed. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/1101): " Whitley N1424 crashed near Berchem, Belgium, 11 July 1940. Sergeant L Isherwood, Sergeant D B Hopes, Sergeant N Emmerson, Sergeant F Young and Sergeant B M Bennett: report of deaths" Airborne from RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire to bomb targets at Leverkusen, Germany. Shot down by Flak/AAA and crashed near Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium. No survivors among the five crew All five crew were buried at Schoonselhof Cemetery, Antwerp, Belgium. The reported crash location of Berchem is a southern district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium, at approximate Coordinates: 51°11′N 04°25′E
Source: Aviation Safety

The aircraft fell on a factory, in the city. As it happened at night, the factory was inoccupied at this moment and exept the aircrews who were killed in the crash, nobody else died. The two first pictures come from Luchtvaart geschiedenis web site and the third comes from Aircrew Remembered web site.

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Sources:

The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
Aircrew Remembered
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