ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 226916
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| Date: | Monday 7 July 1941 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 144 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | AD871 |
| MSN: | PL- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Location: | North Sea - |
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire |
Mission - Brest, France.
Claimed shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Wilhelm Beier of the 3./NJG 2, who was flying Ju 88 C-2 R4+AL from Gilze-Rijen airfield, the Netherlands. This claim is unlikely to be correct due to the route taken ( Hemswell, Upper Heyford , South coast) and the claimed time of the encounter. Beier had a less than stellar reputation for honest accounting and the original source (See the first source below) notes that the 100th Flak brigade based around Brest also made a claim of a Hampden. The only Hamden lost on this night was AD871. The overclaim by Beier was also reflected in the official German claim of aircraft shot down that night exceeding the RAF figure by 1 This discrepancy is noted in a personal letter of reply to the Widow of Sgt Edwards by the Air Ministry.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=AD871
ORB 144 Squadron July 1941 National Archives
Air Casualty Pack AD871 National Archives
Family archives Sgt Norman Victor Edwards.
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 20 March 1940 | L4137 | 144 Sqn RAF | 3 | Scotter, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England |  |
w/o |
| 10 April 1941 | X3066 | 144 Sqn RAF | 4 | 2 km SW of Neeroeteren, Maaseik, Limburg |  |
w/o |
| 17 April 1941 | AD761 | 144 Sqn RAF | 3 | 2 miles ENE of RAF Hemswell, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England | |
w/o |
| 31 January 1942 | AE359 | 144 Sqn RAF | 1 | Aircraft ditched. Survivors spent some 20 hours in their dinghy. | |
unk |
| 12 February 1942 | AT175 | 144 Sqn RAF | 5 | North Sea |  |
mis |
| 2 April 1942 | AD959 | 144 Sqn RAF | 3 | Groß Roscharden, Lastrup, Niedersachsen |  |
w/o |
| 6 April 1942 | AT226 | 144 Sqn RAF | 0 | Grendon Underwood Bombing Range 10 miles WNW of Aylesbury. | |
w/o |
| 11 April 1942 | AT187 | 144 Sqn RAF | 3 | Wrights Farm Holbeach Lincolnshire | |
w/o |
| 11 April 1942 | AT218 | 144 Sqn RAF | 3 | near Kühhude, Bad Berleburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 14 April 1942 | AT110 | 144 Sqn RAF | 4 | Felpham Sussex | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Jul-2019 09:05 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 08-Jul-2019 14:29 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator] |
| 08-Aug-2020 07:31 | Booster69 | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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