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Date: | Monday 1 September 1941 |
Time: | 02:00 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 83 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | AE187 |
MSN: | OL-L |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Meerselsepeel, Ysselsteyn, Limburg -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire |
Narrative:Handley Page Hampden Mk.I AE187 (OL-L) of 83 Sqaudron, RAF. Lost on combat operations on 1/9/1941. Mission: Koln. Took off from RAF Scampton at 20:15 hours on 1/9/1941. The aircraft was coned by two searchlights for 6 minutes & intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Heinz Pähler of the 2./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield. It crashed at the approximate coordinates: 51°28′N 5°48′E. All four crew were killed. All are buried in Woensel General Cemetery at Eindhoven.
Crew
Pilot: Flight Sgt. Ralph Cuthbert Plaistowe RAF (905166, aged 30)
Navigator: Sgt. Adrian John Sommerville-Woodiwis RAF (927551)
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: Sgt. James Hughes RAF (1153798)
Air gunner: Sgt. Robert Buist Scott (995063, aged 26)
Sources:
1. W.R. Chorley: Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second War 1941 Page 134.
2. Aircraft crashes and emergency landings 1940-1945 in the municipality of Venray" by R. Wildekamp
3. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
4.
https://studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/31-08-01-09-1941-sglo-t1237-handley-page-hampden-mk-i-ae187-ol-l/ 5.
http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/hampden-i-ae187-83sq-ol-l.40782/ 6.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2618075/plaistowe,-ralph-cuthbert/ 7.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2618147/somerville-woodiwis,-adrian-john/ 8.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2617909/hughes,-james/ 9.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2618122/scott,-robert-buist/ 10.
http://hdvds9.com/video/file/CWGC-Eindhoven-Woensel.-War-Graves?id=kRElHMLYcrU 11.
http://www.bomber-command.info/c83hamloss.htm 12.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deurne,_Netherlands 13.
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1237&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= 14. Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
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07-May-2016 17:52 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
01-Aug-2018 23:18 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
01-Aug-2018 23:19 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
11-Nov-2018 12:11 |
Nepa |
Updated [Time, Operator, Operator] |
23-Mar-2020 20:56 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |