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Date: | Wednesday 5 November 1941 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 144 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | AD846 |
MSN: | PL-W |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea off Terschelling, Friesland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF North Luffenham, Rutland |
Destination airport: | RAF North Luffenham |
Narrative:Handley Page Hampden Mk.I AD846 (PL-O); lost on combat operations on the night of 5-6/11/1941. Mission: Anti-Shipping Strike.
The aircraft was hit by ship's Flak of a 'Vorpostenboot'; crashed into the North Sea off Terschelling, West Frisian Islands (at approximate coordinates: 53°24′N 5°19′E) on morning of 6/11/1941. Of the crew of four, two were killed, and the other two survived, were captured and taken POW:
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Donald Arthur Baker RAF 80114 (NCO:778186 : Commission Gazetted Friday 18 July, 1941) [PoW]
Observer : Flying Officer Edward Lees Shea RCAF J/4521 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant John Shaw Crossley RAF 994885 [PoW]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Robert Lionel Frank RAFVR 1254939 [Killed]
The two airmen who died were never found, and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sources:
1. W.R. Chorley: Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 171.
2. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
3.
https://studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/05-06-11-1941-sglo-t1324-handley-page-hampden-mk-i-ad846-pl/ 4.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1806992/shea,-edward-lees/ 5.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1270363/frank,-robert-lionel/ 6.
http://www.bomber-command.info/c144hamloss.htm 7. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
15-May-2016 13:38 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-Aug-2018 00:07 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
17-Oct-2018 05:45 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
10-Apr-2020 14:46 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
14-Jun-2022 23:03 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
29-May-2024 14:40 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |