Date:	Thursday 10 April 1941
Time:	23:01 LT
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	106 Sqn RAF
Registration:	X3148
MSN:	ZN-E
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Ittervoort, Limburg -   Netherlands
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire

Narrative:
Handley Page Hampden Mk.I X3148 (ZN-E) of 106 Squadron, RAF. Lost on combat operations on night of 10-11/4/1941.
Took off from RAF Coningsby at 20:00 hours on 10/4/1941. Target: Düsseldorf. Over the Netherlands, it was coned by searchlights and shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Werner Streib of the Stab I./NJG 1 (flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield) and crashed at 23:01 LT at Ittervoort, municipality of Leudal, Limburg, 12 km South East of Weert, Holland, at approximate co ordinates 51°10′15″N 5°49′20″E. Three of the four crew were killed.

Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant John Spencer RAFVR 745618 [Killed]
2nd Pilot : Sergeant Ronald James West RAF 748585 [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant John Thompson Wright RAF 817188 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Eric James Butler RAFVR 759258 [Killed]

Those who died rest Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Gelderland, Netherlands (Grave 16 rows F1-F3).

1. W.R. Chorley: Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses in the Second World War 1941 page 40
2. http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1941%20sec_tcm5-7282.pdf
3. https://studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/10-11-04-1941-sglo-t0986-handley-page-hampden-mk-i-x3148-zn-e/
4. https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/22376-X31481941-04-11.html
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2646926/spencer,-john/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2645208/butler,-eric-james/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2647167/wright,-john-thompson/
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ittervoort
9. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
10. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
04-Apr-2016 07:12	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
28-Oct-2017 07:29	Nepa	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Source, ]
24-Jul-2018 17:07	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
28-Oct-2018 12:58	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
08-Apr-2019 08:09	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
18-Aug-2024 19:17	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]