Date:	Sunday 12 May 1940
Time:	10:10
Type:	Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Owner/operator:	87 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L1970
MSN:	LK-?
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Oost-Maarland, Eijsden, Limburg -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Lille-Vendeville airfield, France
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 L1970, 87 Squadron, RAF: Lost on combat operations over Maastricht, Netherlands. Officially described as "Hurricane L1970 failed to return from an operational flight, 12 May 1940; Flying Officer J A Campbell: report of death". Mission: Fighter escort for Bristol Blenheim bombers attacking bridges in the Maastricht area.

Flying Officer John "Jack" Alexander Campbell (Pilot, Service Number 39492, aged 27) - killed in action, buried at Maastricht General General Cemetery, Limburg, Netherlands

Probably shot down at 10:10 hrs by Hptm. Adolf Galland of 1 Stab/JG 27; this was claimed as Gallands first victory in air to air combat. According to German sources the intercept happened 10 kilometers west of Liège.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 14)
2. Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War Vol. 1 Norman L R Franks p 19
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/278: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14142103
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2961997/campbell,-john-alexander/
5. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/87_squadron.html#maastricht
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Galland#Western_Europe
7. https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0544&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
29-Jun-2011 00:16	ThW	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
04-Jan-2012 12:25	Nepa	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative]
30-Sep-2015 05:43	sandman56	Updated [Narrative]
23-Jun-2019 17:53	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Other fatalities, Source, Narrative]
18-Mar-2020 12:15	TigerTimon	Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source]