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Re: HP Hampden P4321 of 49 Sqn

Dear Aknevelman,

Thanks for the correction - yes I do know of this incident and I was in contact with Denys Boudard. As you may know the Shuttleworth Collection of historic aircraft painted their 'Bucker' as the Bu 131 that he stole and I was trying to get him to come to see it at the Shuttleworth Collection when I heard he had died.

Re: HP Hampden P4321 of 49 Sqn

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Originally Posted by Aknevelman (Post 100413)

Don't knew if this is true but it certainly makes an interesting story:

http://www.ma-squadron.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=966

28-11-40 P4321 Hampden,49 Sqdn.Force landed after getting lost on ops over Germany.
Crew thought they were in Holland.Out of fuel.Carpeted for not destroying their aircraft!

http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/airfields/xchres.html

P4321 Hampden forced landing 28-11-40. 49 Sq.
werke Nr 4477/GD+EG Bu131B. Stolen from Luftwaffe aerodrome at Caen on. ...etc....etc (Additional info via BIA Yahoo group).

If this is true, it took the aircarft not 8 hours but 5 months to return to the UK..... :)

It amazes me that two supposedly intelligent people(Aknevelman &Larry) can manage to turn two entries in a list into one and scramble the details into a "tall" story...notice that it says "Bu131B" after the w/n 4477/GD+EG...thousands of people have managed to read it correctly over the past 10 years.

The first line deals with P4321 and is correct.

The second and subsequent lines deal with w/nr4477 and are correct.

Larry - rather than making snide comments - if you think there is an error on the site(The error of the second frenchman's name was corrected some while ago) - eMail me - the "contact me" link is on almost every page of the site.On a site comprising several hundred pages it is inevitablte that there will be typo errors etc.

In other words back up your comments with constructive action.

Daveg4otu

Re: HP Hampden P4321 of 49 Sqn

Aknevelman,

Thank you for your post.

Denys Boudard died a few years back. He was delighted to hear that the 'Bucker' (CASA) at Shuttleworth Collection was painted in the colours of 'his' aircraft. As I have been researching RAF Christchurch for many years I was able to send details to the Shuttleworth Collection concerning the real Bu 131 and even started to make arrangements for Denys to visit Old Warden when I heard that he had died.

Jean Herbert was killed in 1943 in a Miles trainer over the North Sea coast (I do have the serial but not to hand) and it is thought that he was shot down in error by the Canadians.

Re: HP Hampden P4321 of 49 Sqn

After revisiting this tread more than a year later , it seems sad that "Larry" can't bring himself to apologise for blaming his error in misreading the " daveg4otu" website on the writer.