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Date: | Wednesday 4 March 1942 |
Time: | |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R9445 |
MSN: | TL-T |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Hit by flak. Homebound made an emergency landing RAF Oakington. The aircraft sustained serious damage. No injuries reported.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Samuel Davis Jones RAF 45065 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 07 January, 1941)
2nd Pilot : Sergeant C S Stringer RAF 1377398
Flight Engineer : Sergeant John Maurice Mitchell RAF 637416
Observer : Sergeant H A Hawken RAF 1251076 [Injured]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant R G A Harvey RAF 953625
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant James Henry Janes RAF 1255608
Air Gunner : Sergeant L P Russell RNZAF NZ/40209
In January 2020 the National Archives at Kew, England opened the Casualty Pack - the official RAF report of death or injury - relating to this aircraft on this particular sortie for public viewing.
It lists Sergeant H A Hawkin - please note spelling of family name as being different from that given above - as being injured when the aircraft crashed near Cottenham.
This file states that Navigator 1251076 Sergeant Hawken (please see note at source 3. below as there appears to be some confusion around the exact identity of this man) ‘slightly injured minor lacerations of scalp KINNOT’ [Next of kin notified].
Please see source 2. below for details.
According to the information in the file, other members of the crew are as the list above supplied by a previous researcher and were uninjured.
Sources:
1. Bomber Command Losses 1942
2. AIR 81/12496 (available to view at the National Archives at Kew, England with a Reader’s Ticket). Please see notes at 3. below.
3. A website concerning the history of No. 462 Squadron lists 1251076 RAFVR as Navigator ARTHUR JOHN Hawken who at one time served with No.76 Squadron RAF. See
https://www.462squadron.com/pages/squadron_crews/squadron_crews_middle_east.html The file description for the Casualty Pack (cited above at 2.) lists the only casualty as ‘Sergeant H A Hawkin’ while documents inside refer to Sergeant Hawken.
UK National Archives have been alerted to the discrepancy between the catalogue description and the documents within the file and any clarification will be noted here.
4. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
21 July 1942 |
R9489 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
9 |
Catterton near Tadcaster |
|
w/o |
25 August 1942 |
W7765 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
2 |
Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple, Marne département |
|
w/o |
5 October 1942 |
DT489 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
0 |
RAF Wyton, Huntingdonshire, England |
|
min |
11 August 1943 |
HR861 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
3 |
Biblis, Hessen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-Nov-2017 18:04 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
26-Oct-2018 18:34 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport] |
11-Jul-2023 21:59 |
Nepa |
Updated [[Operator, Destination airport]] |
03-Mar-2024 07:31 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
03-Mar-2024 07:32 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Narrative] |