Hello list
While browsing through one of my books this weekend I came across an entry that referred to Hampdens pursuing and shooting down enemy aircraft including a Bf 110. By the way it is written this seems to preclude kills while under attack but rather seems to indicate that the Hampdens went looking for trouble.
This is the first that I have ever heard of it and Google mostly seems to have references to Hampdens when things didn’t go so well for the bomber. Has anyone got any further gen on such activities?
Regards
Rory
By: colin.barron - 15th November 2005 at 08:54
I recall that Guy Gibson VC started off by flying Hampdens and he once wrote of an incident in which he and his crew chased a German Dornier which was returning from a bombing mission over England. They pulled alongside the Dornier and raked it with fire from their dorsal and ventral gun positions ,bringing it down.
I read somewhere that Gibson shot down a second German bomber in a similar fashion on a separate occasion. Does anyone have further details?
Colin
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November 14, 2005 at 5:38 pm