Date:	Tuesday 15 October 1940
Time:	03:02
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	44 Sqn RAF
Registration:	X2910
MSN:	KM-?
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Röwitz, Klötze, Sachsen-Anhalt -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Waddington

Narrative:
Operation - Berlin.
X2910 left Waddington at 22:40 with three other aircraft to bomb target H41.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and shot down by the night fighter crew of Leutnant Hans-Georg Mangelsdorf & Unteroffizier Hubert Winter of the 2./NJG 1, who were flying Bf 110 C-7 G9+FK from Gardelegen airfield.
Crew:
566634 Sgt Leonard John BURT - killed - Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany
580928 Sgt Donald WINDLE DFM - POW
625671 Sgt Jack BALDWIN - killed - Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany
75687 P/O Ronald Mark CARRELL - killed - Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany

Date of death according to CWGC 14-10-1940.

1, Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
2, http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=X2910
3. Google Maps
4. National Archives Kew 44 Sqdn ORB Record of Events doc AIR27/447/26 page 10
5. Henk Welting's database (rafcommands.com)
6. CWGC
7. AIR81/3765
8. Bomber Command Losses (1939-1940) WR Chorley, page 118

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
24-Sep-2020 17:52	TigerTimon	Added
22-Oct-2024 11:59	Peter194	Updated [Other fatalities, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
27-Oct-2024 07:18	Nepa	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Narrative, Operator, ]
17-Aug-2025 13:05	MMR	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]