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Airman: o888258.htm
Surname: Adams Init: FGW Rank: Sgt Service: RCAF
Sqdn: 420
P_link: p065.htm
Plane: HAM P5330 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sønderby Bjerge
Crash_d: d250442 Buried_d: o888
C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
 Under et bombetogt til Rostock nedstyrtede et Hampden fly ved Sønderby
Bjerge den 25. april 1942.
Tre omkomne besætningsmedlemmer, J.M. Hicks, J. Potter og J.H. Smith,
blev den 28. april 1942 begravet i Assens.
Sergeant Frank George Webster Adams, RCAF,
overlevede med et brækket ben. Han kom på sygehuset i Assens, hvor Værnemagten
hentede ham.
Så blev han taget til
Dulag Luft Oberursel og derfra til Stalag IXC
Mühlhausen, Stalag Luft VI Heydekrug og Stalag 357 Fallingbostel. (Kilde: AOD)
Se øjenvidneskildring og
Omkring Hampden P5530.
Se monument
for de 3 dræbte flyvere fra
HAM P5330 rejst
her ved
Højtidelig mindestensafsløring i Sønderby.
Se også brev fra Doreen og Frank Adams
til Valdemar og Anne Hansen, og Johannes V. Hansen.
Se artiklen Da
Hampden P5330 styrtede ned ud fra
Sgt. Joe Hicks´ War.
Airwar over
Denmark har
mere om dette fly og dets
besætning. 4 flyvere. Flere links i engelsk version.
During a bombing raid to Rostock a Hampden plane crashed at Sønderby Bjerge on
25 April 1942.
Three of the deceased members of the crew, J.M. Hicks, J. Potter and J.H. Smith,
were buried in Assens on 28 April 1942.
See monument
to the 3 killed airmen from
HAM P5330 erected
here and
an eye witness account.
Sergeant Frank George Webster Adams, RCAF,
survived with a broken leg. He was taken to the hospital in Assens, where the
German Wehrmacht
picked him up. Then he was taken to
Dulag Luft Oberursel and from there to
Stalag IXC
Mühlhausen, Stalag Luft VI Heydekrug
and Stalag
357 Fallingbostel.
(Source: AOD)
See
Around Hampden P5530
and
letter from Doreen and Frank Adams
to Valdemar and Anne Hansen, and Johannes V. Hansen.
Ephemeral Treasures: Bob Ingraham´s Home
Page has the award-winning article
Sgt. Joe Hicks´ War
(pdf 2.94 MB) - also about the plane and the rest of the crew!
See
No. 420 Squadron RCAF
at RAF Bomber Command 60th
Anniversary and RCAF 420 Snowy
Owl Squadron. This
Hampden started
from RAF Waddington.
Airwar over Denmark has more about
this plane and its crew. 4
airmen.
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