Hampden I L4087 - Tannis Bugt (Bay)                                                  Updated: 03 JAN 2022
 

Airman Surname Init Rank Service Sqdn P_link Plane Operation Crash_site Crash_d Buried_d C_link At_Next
o888157.htm Farrands E L Sgt RAF 44 p012.htm HAM L4087 Minelaying Tannis Bugt (Bay) d200740 o888 o888.htm POW
o888156.htm Green B P/O RAF 44 p012.htm HAM L4087 Minelaying Tannis Bugt (Bay) d200740 o888 o888.htm POW
a084001.htm Miller R T Sgt RAF 44 p012.htm HAM L4087 Minelaying Tannis Bugt (Bay) d200740 b240740 c084.htm Skagen
a084002.htm Nixon P D Sgt RAF 44 p012.htm HAM L4087 Minelaying Tannis Bugt (Bay) d200740 b250740 c084.htm Skagen

 

HAM L4087 blev under en minelægningsoperation ved Frederikshavn den 20. juli 1944 ramt af flak og styrtede ned ved Kandestederne, omkring her.
Flyet tog vandoverfladen ca. 100 m fra kysten, tippede om på ryggen og sank på 6-8 meter vand. 2 besætningsmedlemmer omkom. Se p012MACR.
Se Minelægningsområder. Se Hampden + foto.

Sgt R.T. Miller og Sgt P.D. Nixon blev begravet på Skagen Kirkegård den 24. og den 25. juli 1944. Mere om Skagen.

De 2 andre besætningsmedlemmer blev snart taget til fange og tilbragte resten af krigen som krigsfanger i Tyskland. (Kilde: FT 89-32-5) Se Tyske krigsfangelejre.
4 flyvere. 

During a minelaying operation at Frederikshavn on 20 July 1944 HAM L4087 was hit by flak and crashed at Kandestederne, about here. See Minelaying areas.
The plane ditched about 100 m off the coast, tilted to its back and sank at a depth of 6-8 m. 2 crew members perished.

Sgt R.T. Miller and Sgt P.D. Nixon were buried in Skagen Cemetery on 24 and 25 July 1944. More about Skagen.

The 2 other crew members were soon captured and they spent the rest of the war as POWs in Germany. (Source: FT 89-32-5) See German POW-Camps.

Hampden I L4087 KM-C took off from RAF Waddington on 19 JUL 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this and Archive Report.) See p012MACR.

See Hampden + photo * No. 44 Squadron RAF in Wikipedia * No. 44 Squadron (RAF): Second World War * RAF-Lincolnshire.info: 44 Squadron.

4 airmen.