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Date: Thursday 10 April 1941
Time: 23:32 LT
Type: Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator: 144 Sqn RAF
Registration: X3066
MSN: PL-
Fatalities: Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location: 2 km SW of Neeroeteren, Maaseik, Limburg - Belgium
Phase: Combat
Nature: Military
Departure airport: RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff for an operation to Düsseldorf, Germany.
Over Belgium, the aircraft was coned by searchlights and engaged by night fighter pilot Leutnant Hans-Dieter Frank of the Stab I./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 C-4 from Venlo airfield, the Netherlands. In the engagement, the Messerschmitt collided with the Hampden and was substantially damaged (15%). The Luftwaffe pilot managed to bring the aircraft back to base.
The RAF crew is buried at Adegem, Maldegem, Belgium:
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Noel James Kerr RAFVR 81041 (NCO:741858 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 16 July, 1940) [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Robert James Hamilton RAFVR 85676 (NCO:758057 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 22 October, 1940) [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Jack Howell DFM RAF 552601 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Arthur Ronald Wickens RAFVR 909288 [Killed]
It was Frank first victory 1 10 April 1941 23:32
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