Cover

Foreword
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Appendix 5
Appendix 6
 

Appendix 2

  

Record of Hampden raids on Berlin and casualties

 

(Period 25/08/40–20/09/41)

Date

No. of Planes

Losses

Sqdrn

Cause of loss

1940

       

25/08

46

P4416

49

Missing. Believed ditched on returning

   

P2070

50

Out of fuel. Forced landing Germany

   

P2124

50

Out of fuel. Ditched off Scarborough

   

P4380

83

Out of fuel. Ditched in Grimsby

   

P1354

83

Out of fuel. Ditched in Wash

   

X2895

83

Out of fuel. Crashed Co. Durham

28/08

30

X2897

83

Out of fuel. Ditched at Skegness

30/08

15

P2123

44

Out of fuel. Ditched Cromer

03/09

12

No Casualties

 

23/09

45

L4089

83

Shot down over Germany. Flak

25/09

17

No Casualties

 

01/10

18

P4411

50

Forced single engine landing—Dorking

14/10

20

X2910

44

Shot down.—Duisburg

   

X2993

50

Shot down.—Kalbe

20/10

30

P2137

44

Shot down.—Flak

   

L4154

44

Out of fuel. Bad weather.—Forced landing Colchester

   

X2962

49

Out of fuel.—Crashed near Truro

26/10

12

No Casualties

 

29/10

20

X3000

50

Out of fuel. Icing.- Abandoned Linton on Ouse

01/11

15

X2915

144

Presumed ditched in North Sea

   

X3047

144

Missing

14/11

10

X2996

44

Missing

   

L4051

83

Crashed over Germany

   

L4057

83

Missing

15/12

30

No Casualties

 

20/12

47

No Casualties

 

1941

       

12/03

30

AD721

50

Shot down, night fighter

09/04

24

No Casualties

 

17/04

39

X2999

44

Missing, presumed ditched

   

AD730

50

Out of fuel. Crashed near Dublin

02/09

32

AE152

44

Missing, Presumed ditched. North Sea

   

AE254

44

Missing. Cause not known

   

AD203

49

Out of fuel, Crashed Stradbrook, Suffolk

   

X3136

49

Out of Fuel. Crashed Thornham, Norfolk

   

X2919

50

Out of fuel. Crashed Wittering

   

AD305

50

Out of fuel. Crashed Bircham Newton

   

AD798

89

Out of fuel. Crashed in fog. Norfolk

07/09

43

AE299

106

Crashed Germany. Cause unknown

   

AD744

144

Undershot flare path on return

   

AE304

144

Engine failure on take off

20/09

20

No Casualties

 

Summary of Hampden Berlin Operations

Period of
attacks

 
Months

Number of
attacks

Sorties
flown

of which: 1940

8

26

320

of which: 1941

9

15

158

of which: Total

17

41

478

 Causes of Aircraft Write-offs
 

1940

1941

Total

%

Fuel shortage*

14

6

20

58

Enemy Action

5

2

7

21

Other Causes

3

4

7

21

Total

22

12

34

100

* Note: The fuel shortage figure comprises 16 certain and 4 probable listed as "Missing, presumed ditched in North Sea"

Appendix 3