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Date: | Wednesday 15 May 1940 |
Time: | 01:06 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 44 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | P4286 |
MSN: | KM-K |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Den Hout, NE of Breda, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | Breda - Communications |
Narrative:Handley Page Hampden Mk.I P4286 (KM-K) of 44 Squadron, RAF Waddington. Lost on combat operations: took off from Waddington at 01:00 hours to disrupt communications facilities in the Netherlands (Target: Breda). The plane crashed at Witte-Weg, Schransmansdreef, Den Hout, 8 km north east of Breda, Noord-Brabant on the night of 14-15/5/1940. The aircraft was coned by searchlights and hit by Moerdijk-based Flak. All four occupants died in the crash:
Crew
Pilot: 40198 Fg Off Leslie James Ashfield - Oosterhout Protestant Cemetery Grave 5.
2nd Pilot: 41380 Plt Off Charles Douglas Crawley (Australia) - Oosterhout Protestant Cemetery Grave 3.
Observer: 581187 Sgt Francis Wallace McKinlay - Oosterhout Protestant Cemetery Grave 6.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 551160 Cpl Frank Preston - Oosterhout Protestant Cemetery Grave 4.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 24)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/365:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502169 3.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ashfield-leslie.html 4.
https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/26081-P42861940-05-15.html 5.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2766383/ashfield,-leslie-james/ 6.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2766384/crawley,-charles-douglas/ 7.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2766388/mckinlay,-francis-wallace/ 8.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2766389/preston,-frank/ 9. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
Revision history:
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17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
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15-Jul-2015 12:34 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
07-Dec-2015 17:52 |
Faun |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
25-Jun-2018 21:36 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator] |
29-Jun-2018 18:56 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
30-Oct-2018 04:22 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
13-May-2019 14:27 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
11-Jul-2019 21:23 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
25-Mar-2020 12:57 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
12-Jun-2022 14:04 |
Anon. |
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17-Jun-2022 11:15 |
Ron Averes |
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