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. 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.
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. 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. |