Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I in Norf: 4 killed
Date & Time:
Apr 15, 1942 at 0232 LT
Operator:
Registration:
AT128
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Waddington - Waddington
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Waddington in the evening of April 14 on an operation to Dortmund. It was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Norf, south of Düsseldorf. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Bradley Winship Johnson, pilot,
Sgt Henry Ernest Vosper, navigator,
Sgt Joseph Preston Shipton, wireless operator,
Sgt John Charles Donald McHardy, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Sgt Bradley Winship Johnson, pilot,
Sgt Henry Ernest Vosper, navigator,
Sgt Joseph Preston Shipton, wireless operator,
Sgt John Charles Donald McHardy, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by the German Flak.
