ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 225541
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| Date: | Friday 1 November 1940 |
| Time: | 21:45 LT |
| Type: |  Heinkel He 111P-2 |
| Owner/operator: | ?./KG.55 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | G1+JS |
| MSN: | 1571 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Matlock Gardens, Hornchurch, Essex -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
At 21:45 hours Heinkel llIP-2 1571 GI+JS of KG.55, Luftwaffe, crashed on a block of flats in Matlock Gardens, Hornchurch after being hit by Flak/AAA. Two of the crew and three civilians on the ground perished.
The pilot Leutnant Hans-Adalbert Tuffers and Uffz Josef Haverstreug managed to vacate the aircraft safely (and were captured to become POWs) but Unteroffizier Richard Bubel and Josef Juvan perished when the Heinkel hit the ground spewing fuel everywhere and burst into flames.
The burning fuel engulfed a young family sheltering in an Anderson Air Raid Shelter, killing the occupants: William Bird aged 29, his wife Margaret aged 26 and 2 year old Joyce, all from 12 Matlock Gardens.
Sources:
1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139781495/richard-buebel
2. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/7509521/bubel,-richard/
3. http://www.aircrewremembered.com/KrackerDatabase/?q=Bubel%2C+R
4. http://www.nwamuseum.co.uk/WESTESSEXcrashesMishaps3WW2.pdf
5. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140282231/joseph-juvan
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/7509891/juvan,-joseph/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-May-2019 00:58 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 09-Dec-2019 17:22 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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