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Date: | Monday 10 March 1941 |
Time: | 22:18 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | X2918 |
MSN: | KM-Z |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Bovensbos, Helden, Limburg -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Narrative:Handley Page Hampden Mk.I X2918 (KM-Z) of 44 Squadron, RAF. Took off from RAF Waddington at 19:00 hours on 9/3/1941.Target: Köln (Cologne), Germany. The aircraft was coned by searchlights and shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Werner Streib of the Stab I./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Eindhoven airfield. All four crew survived and were taken prisoner of war.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Henry Rayner Stockings DFC MiD RAF 79173 (NCO:745467 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 04 June, 1940) [PoW]
Observer : Sergeant Ernest Wilfred Dunkling RAF 754304 [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Pilot Officer Edwin Geoffrey Major Bond RAF 79225 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 04 June, 1940) [PoW]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Robert Noel James Hanslip RAF 905593 [PoW]
Sources:
1. Chorley, W.R.: Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 27.
2.
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0961&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= 3.
https://studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/10-11-03-1941-sglo-t0961-handley-page-hampden-mk-i-x2918-km/ 4.
https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/26122-X29181941-03-11.html 5. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
6. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
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24 May 1940 |
L4171 |
44 Sqn RAF |
4 |
Broichweiden, Würselen, near Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
27-Mar-2016 06:57 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
28-Oct-2017 07:29 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
23-Jul-2018 21:57 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
30-Oct-2018 04:25 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
07-Mar-2019 17:51 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
07-Mar-2019 17:52 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
10-Mar-2024 07:40 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |