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| Date: | Tuesday 7 November 1939 |
| Time: | 13:43 |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 57 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | L1325 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Metz airfield (Fr.) |
| Metz airfield |
Blenheim L1325. Take-off at 11:45 hrs from Metz, briefed to reconnoitre the Siegfried Line. 07/11/1939
Failed to return, reported shot down in the Wuppertal area. According to the son of one of the crew (Sgt McIntyre):
"My father, a Sergeant Observer, was in a Blenheim Mk I of 57 Squadron, Serial No L1325, on 7 November 1939, on a reconnaissance sortie from Metz. The aircraft was shot down near Mainz/Opladen by Leutnant (later Major) Joachim Muncheberg in an Bf 109, his first victory of 135 (!) according to some sources. My father, and the other two crew members, survived as POWs.
The crew that flew the same mission the day before, to survey the 'Siegfried Line', were killed in action. The squadron commander Wing Commander 'Wings ' Day had been shot down the month before.
Blenheim L1325 :Shot down by Lt .Joachim Müncheberg of Stab III./JG 26 south-west of Opladen in Nordrhein-Westfalen during a photo-reconnaissance sortie over the Dutch-German border at 13:43hrs.
(German time). Aircraft crashed in a wood, near the Wupper river.
Crew:
P/O (39776) Harry Ryland Bewlay (pilot) RAF bailed out /PoW.
Sgt (562227) Samuel McIntyre (Obs) RAF bailed out /PoW
AC1 (540409) Thomas Peever Adderley (WOp/AG) RAF bailed out /PoW
Sources:
1. Jame J Halley, Air Britain RAF Aircraft L1000-N9999
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/41: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14142124
3. http://www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=2476
4. https://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/551655-blenheim-mk1-flies.html#post8753310
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?16668&p=103298#103298
6. https://Blenheim production list
7. https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Joachim_M%C3%BCncheberg
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 26-Feb-2008 20:29 | JINX | Added |
| 22-Jun-2008 21:57 | JINX | Updated |
| 15-Dec-2014 10:56 | Jixon | Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, ] |
| 06-Oct-2018 15:28 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator, ] |
| 03-Jun-2019 22:38 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 04-Jun-2019 04:14 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, ] |
| 16-Jul-2024 22:10 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Narrative, Operator, ] |
| 26-Aug-2024 19:59 | Nepa | Updated [Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Operator, ] |
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