Hampden P5330 Mk. I - Bombing - 1942-04-24 to 1942-04-25
Squadron: 420 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1942-04-24
Completion Date: 1942-04-25
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
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Base: RAF Waddington
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Squadron Code: PT-J
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Crash City: Denmark
Crash Specifics: 4 miles south by south-east of Assens at Sonderby Bjerge on Funen Island
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: flakfighter
Flak Battery: 1 & 3/leichte Flak-Abteilung 770
Enemy Claim: Oberleutnant Lothar Linke of 12/NJG 1
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420 Snowy Owl Squadron (Pugnamus Finitum) RAF Waddington. Hampden I aircraft P 5330 PT-J lost, shot down, claimed both by Luftwaffe night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Lothar Linke of 12/NJG 1 and by 1 & 3/leichte Flak-Abteilung 770 (a Kreigsmarine flak-ship) during a night strike against targets in Rostock, Germany. The Hampden crashed 4 miles south by south-east of Assens at Sonderby Bjerge on Fyn Island, Denmark

Sergeant JM Hicks (RCAF), Flight Sergeant JH Smith (RCAF) and Sergeant J Potter (RAFVR) were all killed in action

Sergeant FGW Adams (RCAF) survived and was taken as Prisoner of War

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