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. (See p065MACR)

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.
4 flyvere. 

During a bombing raid to Rostock a Hampden plane crashed at Sønderby Bjerge on 25 April 1942. (See p065MACR)

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.

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.