ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52697
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Date: | Wednesday 22 July 1942 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | AT139 |
MSN: | EQ-A Bar |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Waddenzee E of Den Helder, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Balderton |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:41 hrs for an operation to Duisburg in Germany.
The aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances. The observer is missing in action:
Pilot:R/84099 Flt Sgt Robert Wishart RCAF - Harlingen General Cemetery Plot E. Row 3. Grave 6.
Observer:R/81079 Sgt Robert Spencer Doherty RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 103
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:R/67907 Flt Sgt John Beverly Pleasence - RCAF - Harlingen General Cemetery Plot E Row 3 Grave 8 (Washed up 1 km s of Zurich)
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:104333 Plt Off Thomas Reginald Ashton - Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery 31 A 4 (Washed up Afsluitdijk pole 18.5 at 30 July 42) (NCO:1282891 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 30 September, 1941)
Sources:
http://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/item2.php?SGLO=T1698 CWGC
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
18-Jul-2017 09:45 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
17-Feb-2018 19:41 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
06-Oct-2018 18:07 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Phase, Destination airport, Operator] |
08-Jun-2019 19:52 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |
07-May-2020 18:04 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
17-Jun-2022 11:21 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
21-Jul-2023 08:04 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [[Location]] |
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