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Date: | Friday 17 April 1942 |
Time: | 23:22 |
Type: | Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 114 (Hong Kong) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z7430 |
MSN: | RT-Q |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Oosteinderweg 489, Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF West Raynham, Norfolk (takeoff at 21:36 hrs) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Hit by light Flak over Amsterdam on an Intruder mission to Schiphol airport. Crash landed at Oosteinderweg 489 Aalsmeer-Oost at 23:22. The crew were made PoW's
Crew
Pilot: 37355 Wg Cdr G L B Hull DFC (Southern Rhodesia) Stalag Luft 3 Zagan & Belaria. PoW Number 775 (Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 21 November, 1939)
Navigator 45552 Flt Lt Thomas Herbert Baker DFM DFC MiD Stalag Luft 3 Zagan & Belaria. PoW Number 39677. Stalag Luft VIIID (Nuremberg) from February 1945 (NCO:563032 Commission Gazetted : Friday 09 May, 1941)
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:47436 Plt Off J F L Morton RAAF Stalag Luft 3 Zagan & Belaria. PoW Number 203 (NCO:547785 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 20 January, 1942)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1484&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
Bomber Command Losses 1942
RAF Prisoner of War.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
15-Apr-2017 18:25 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
08-Dec-2017 15:02 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
06-Jan-2018 12:46 |
XindelX |
Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Damage, Narrative] |
26-Sep-2018 08:45 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
18-Apr-2020 09:58 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source] |
28-Jul-2021 07:34 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |
17-Apr-2024 06:49 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |