ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 269375
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Date: | Wednesday 5 November 1941 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 144 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | AE424 |
MSN: | PL-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea off Schiermonnikoog, Friesland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF North Luffenham, Rutland |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off in the early evening for an anti-shipping operation, armed with 4 x 500 lbs and 2 x 250 lbs bombs; failed to return.
It was hit by ship's Flak of a Vorpostenboot and crashed. All four crew members are missing in action and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/evans-llewellyn.html
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
10 July 1941 |
AD924 |
144 Sqn RAF |
2 |
Borreshoefstraat road, Dilsen-Stokkem, Limburg |
|
w/o |
8 December 1941 |
AD791 |
144 Sqn RAF |
4 |
Oteppe, Burdinne, Liège |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Nov-2021 13:30 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
05-Nov-2021 13:30 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Damage] |
15-Jun-2022 00:30 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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