Date:	Sunday 28 December 1941
Time:	22:40
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	P1165
MSN:	EQ-B
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Bumerweg - Steengroeveweg, Winterswijk, Gelderland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Balderton, Nottinghamshire
Destination airport:	RAF Balderton

Narrative:
Handley Page Hampden Mk.I P1165 (EQ-B) of 408 (Goose) Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force. Mission: Hüls, Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Took off from RAF Balderton at 18:55 hours on 28/12/1941.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the crew of Oberleutnant Helmut Woltersdorf & Hans Ortmann of the 7./NJG 1, who had taken off from Twente at 21:59 hrs, in Bf 110 G9+AR; crashed at 22:40 hours the same evening at Dorpbuurt, 2 km east of Winterswijk, Gelderland, Netherlands (at approximate Coordinates: 51°58'N, 6°42'E).
Of the crew of four, only one survived, and the other three were killed:

Pilot Officer S B K Brackenbury RCAF (pilot, survived, captured, became POW)
404557: Sgt Desmond William Thane RNZAF (Observer, aged 21) - KIA
981262: Sgt Douglas Theodore Williams RAFVR (Air Gunner, aged 28) - KIA
1259257: Sgt Peter Frederick Issac RAF (Wireless Op/Air Gunner, aged 19) - KIA

Those who died are buried in the local Cemetery in Winterswijk, Gelderland.

1. Air-Britain: Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-R9999
2. W.R. Chorley: Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 197.
3. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
4. https://studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/28-29-12-1941-sglo-t1368-handley-page-hampden-mk-i-p1165-eq-b/
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2647743/thane,-desmond-william/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2647722/isaac,-peter-frederick/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2647745/williams,-douglas-theodore/
8. https://www.backtonormandy.org/component/mtree/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/19547-P11651941-12-29.html
9. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westdorp_Buurt
10. https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1368&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
11. Flugbuch Ortmann

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

27 March 1942	L4140	408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF	4	North Sea N of Terschelling, Friesland		w/o
3 June 1942	AT154	408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF	4	IJsselmeer E of Medemblik, Noord-Holland		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
06-Jul-2013 18:34	JINX	Updated [Operator, Phase, Source, Narrative]
18-Sep-2014 20:08	Jixon	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
24-May-2015 20:51	Faun	Updated [Operator]
16-May-2016 19:44	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Aug-2018 18:21	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Oct-2018 17:55	Nepa	Updated [Time, Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
13-Apr-2020 18:25	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
04-Jan-2022 12:06	TigerTimon	Updated [Source, Narrative]
17-Jun-2022 01:33	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]