ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 234860
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Date: | Tuesday 14 October 1941 |
Time: | 05:00 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 44 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | AD975 |
MSN: | KM-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Neerstraat, Waasmunster, East Flanders -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 01:20 hrs for an operation to Köln in Germany.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Röderer & Feldwebel Czybulka of the 4./NJG 1 (detached to Stab I./NJG 1), who were flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=AD975 https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/hampden-te-waasmunster Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Apr-2020 19:54 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
07-Apr-2020 19:59 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Date, Time, Narrative] |
26-Jun-2022 21:25 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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