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
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]

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

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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]