Date & Time:
Jul 8, 1941 at 0210 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden
Operator:
Registration:
AD735
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Coningsby - Coningsby
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
3
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Coningsby in the evening of July 7 on an operation to Mönchengladbach. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a Me.110 and crashed in Heesch. Three crew members were killed and the pilot became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Robert Wotherspoon, pilot,
Sgt Kenneth Charles James Botsford, wireless operator, †
F/Sgt Philip Hudson, observer, †
Sgt Hugh Tait, wireless operator. †
Crew:
Sgt Robert Wotherspoon, pilot,
Sgt Kenneth Charles James Botsford, wireless operator, †
F/Sgt Philip Hudson, observer, †
Sgt Hugh Tait, wireless operator. †
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
