ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 201472
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Date: | Wednesday 25 March 1942 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 50 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | AT158 |
MSN: | VN-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | Missing off the island of Groix, Morbihan -
France
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Gardening -Lorient. Presumed to have crashed in the target area.
Crew:-
Pilot: 68793 Plt Off James Duncan Crombie RAFVR - Lorient (Kerentrech)Communal Cemetery Plot 62. Row A. Joint grave (NCO:1058663 Commission Gazetted : Friday 11 July, 1941)
Observer: 924734 Sgt Harry Naughton Deckman RAFVR - Lorient (Kerentrech)Communal Cemetery Plot 62. Row A. Grave 3.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:1208601 Sgt Frank Manley RAFVR - Lorient (Kerentrech)Communal Cemetery Plot 62. Row A. Grave 1.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1165304 Sgt Charles Ronald Clive Perry RAFVR - Lorient (Kerentrech)Communal Cemetery Plot 62. Row A. Joint grave
Sources:
CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942
France-Crashes 39-45
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Nov-2017 19:31 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
12-Nov-2018 20:51 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
20-Jan-2022 08:44 |
Anon. |
Updated [Registration] |
22-Mar-2022 14:49 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Date, Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source] |
18-Apr-2022 05:51 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
25-Mar-2024 19:08 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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