H.J. Copeman                                                                                          Updated: 06 JAN 2021

Airman: o888008.htm Surname: Copeman Init: H J Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 408

P_link: p078.htm Plane: HAM AD803 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sea S of Samsø

Crash_d: d160542 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW

HAM AD803 var på en minelægningsoperation mod området Pumpkin (se Minelægningsområder).
Flyet styrtede i havet syd for Samsø omkring her. Det flød lidt, og det satte pilot, sergent H.J. Copeman i stand til at komme ud af vraget.
Han blev krigsfange. Han blev hårdt såret samlet op af det skib, de havde beskudt og ført til Århus. (AOD har detaljer). Se også Tyske krigsfangelejre.

Fra HAM AD803 er 1 flyver begravet i Aarhus, 1 i Tranebjerg og 1 har ingen kendt grav. 1 blev krigsfange.

4 flyvere.

HAM AD803 was on a minelaying operation targeting Pumpkin (see Minelaying areas).
HAM AD803 crashed, burning, into the sea south of Samsø, about here. It floated for a while, and this allowed Pilot Sgt H.J.Copeman to get out of the wreck.
He became a prisoner of war. He was badly injured and was picked up by the ship they had shot at and taken to Aarhus. (AOD has details).
See also German POW-Camps.

1 airman from HAM AD803 is buried in Aarhus, 1 in Tranebjerg and 1 has no known grave. 1 became a Prisoner of War.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 408 (Goose) Squadron RCAF * 408 "Goose" Squadron Association.

Hampden I AD803 EQ-L took off from RAF Balderton at 22.35 hrs on 15 MAY 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
4 airmen.