Date:	Wednesday 14 January 1942
Time:	20:42
Type:	Bristol Blenheim Mk IV
Owner/operator:	114 (Hong Kong) Sqn RAF
Registration:	V6391
MSN:	RT-V
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea off Schiermonnikoog, Friesland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF West Raynham, Norfolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The Blenheim Mk IV V6391 of No. 114 (Hong Kong) Squadron RAF took off at 17:35 hrs from RAF West Raynham for an Intruder sortie to Schiphol. It was shot down by Kriegsmarine Flak and crashed at 20:42 hrs in the sea off Schiermonnikoog. The whole crew is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Basil John Adam RAAF Aus/400451 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial 108
Observer : Flying Officer Frederick Walter Ollis Street-Porter RAFVR 83000 [Killed] (Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 27 August, 1940) Runnymede Memorial 67
Wireless-Operator / Ait Gunner : Sergeant Joseph Arthur Willis RAFVR 925267 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial 96

During the night of 14/15 January 1942, the RAF Bomber Command flew the following operations:
_ 95 aircraft were sent to attack Hamburg, aiming shipyards and an airframe factory. Only 48 crews claimed to have bombed Hamburg, which reported Altona station hit , 12 fires (7 large), 6 people killed and 22 injured, but no other major incidents. Two Hampdens, one Manchester and one Wellington did not return from this raid (15 KIA, 5 POW), another Hampden and one Manchester from this force crashed in England (7 KIA).
_ 18 aircraft attacked Emden. A Wellington was badly damaged by a night-fighter and crashed on return (1 WIA).
_ 9 Blenheims and 2 Wellingtons were sent to Rotterdam and 5 Blenheims attacked it without loss.
_ 17 Blenheim flew Intruders sorties to the Dutch airfields of Soesterberg, Schiphol and Leeuwarden. 6 Blenheims attacked Schiphol, 4 Soesterberg and 1 Leeuwarden, dropping total of 6 tons HE and 8 X 250 oil bombs. Bombs straddled the flarepath at Schiphol and fires were started at Schiphol and Soesterberg. One aircraft did not return from Schiphol (3 KIA).
_ 5 Hampdens laid mines off Kiel and Warnemunde.

"The Bomber Command War Diaries", by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt, ISBN 1-85780-033-8
http://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/apps/geoservices/geodata/regios/west-nederland-noord/Data_KaartLuchtoorlogWOII/AirOps42-43.pdf
"Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, vol 3: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1942", by W R Chorley. ISBN 0-904597-89-X
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1377&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx
http://www.maplandia.com/netherlands/friesland/schiermonnikoog/
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
14-Jan-2016 12:55	Laurent Rizzotti	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
29-Dec-2017 11:05	TigerTimon	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Jan-2018 12:46	XindelX	Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Narrative]
26-Sep-2018 08:41	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]
15-Jun-2022 00:40	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
14-Jan-2024 07:37	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]