

Jack Potter
Updated: 26
OCT 2022
Airman: a003002.htm Surname: Potter Init: J
Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 420
P_link: p065.htm
Plane: HAM P5330 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sønderby
Bjerge.
Crash_d: d250442 Buried_d: b280442
C_link: c003.htm At_Next: Assens
”Under et bombetogt til Rostock nedstyrtede et Hampden fly ved Sønderby
Bjerge den 25. April 1942.
(See p065MACR)
Tre omkomne besætningsmedlemmer, J.M. Hicks, J. Potter og J.H. Smith,
blev den 27. april fulgt fra sygehuset til kapellet på kirkegården af omkring
500 Assensborgere. Begravelsen fandt sted om formiddagen den følgende dag. For den tyske kommandant mødte kaptajn Gielcke, ligesom et tysk
æreskompagni havde givet møde. På hver af de 3 kister lå et engelsk flag, og der
var kranse med signerede bånd fra den tyske værnemagt. Den tyske feltpræst
Johannes Vorrath, København, forrettede begravelsen. Et
overlevende besætningsmedlem blev taget til fange.” (FAF)
Sergeant (Pilot) Jack Potter, 21 år, var
søn af Alfred og Josephine E. Potter, Birkenshaw, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC) Se foto af Jack
Potter.
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.
4 flyvere.
“During a bombing raid to Rostock a Hampden plane crashed at Sønderby Bjerge on
25 April 1942. (See p065MACR)
On 27 April three of the deceased members of the crew, J.M. Hicks, J. Potter and J.H. Smith,
were accompanied from the hospital to the chapel of rest in the
cemetery by about 500 citizens of Assens. The burial was next day before noon.
Captain Mielcke met for the German commander and a
German company was
present as
a guard of honour. A Union Jack covered each of the 3 coffins, and there were wreaths
with inscriptions on ribbons from the German Wehrmacht.
The German army chaplain
Johannes Vorrath, Copenhagen, officiated at the graveside ceremony.
A surviving member of the crew was taken prisoner.” (FAF)
See monument
to the 3 killed airmen from
HAM P5330 erected
here and
an eye witness account
and
Around Hampden P5530.
Sergeant (Pilot) Jack Potter, 21, was the
son of Alfred and Josephine E. Potter, of Birkenshaw, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
(Source: CWGC)
Always remembered. See photo of Jack Potter.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 86.
See also the
Handley
Page Hampden at The Canadian Museum
of Flight and
No. 420 Squadron RCAF and RCAF 420 Snowy
Owl Squadron.
Hampden I P5330
PT-J took off from RAF Waddington
on 24 APR 1942. (Source: Aircrew
Remembered has
this.)
4 airmen.
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