Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

Good night to all!
I am seeking information on the names of the crew of the Mosquito PRI serial number W4056 shot down on 2 April 1942 while on a PR mission.
Thanks
Adriano

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

Unfortunately no initials and both airmen - who became PoWs - very common names so hardly to find a match in the PoW administration. Pilot was P/O HUTCHESON and Nav P/O ALLEN. They may have been shot down by a Bf 109E of I./JG5 (perhaps Kurt Dombacher). They forcelanded their Mosquito at Beian Grande near airstrip Örland (Örlandet). Before they crashlanded they probably shot down Adolf Pürzl - Bf109 of 8./JG5.
All from an unknown source but perhaps a start for further research.
Regards,
Henk.

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

Hi, Dont think that these PR Moquito's were armed.

And

From RAF Commands site

I. Hutchinson and B.K. Allen were at POW camp "L3"

Alex

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

If "B.K." ALLEN and "HUTCHINSON" is correct for Camp L3 this could have been:
F/Lt I. Hutchinson - 102960 - L3-163, and
F/Lt B.K. Allen - 119514 - L3-136

Henk.

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

Hello Henk,

Yes those are the two.

Alex

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

From an obit for Hutchinson:

"Hutchinson's flying days were not over and he went on to fly unarmed Spitfire reconnaissance missions before being shot down by Me109s over Norway on a long-range mission in a specially adapted Mosquito fighter-bomber. He landed despite the tail being shot off and his navigator calmly fired a Verey pistol into a pool of petrol, blowing up the plane. Eventually they were met by a Luftwaffe officer who said in perfect English: "We've been waiting for you for a while. "I'm afraid our coffee's cold, but have some schnapps instead." Hutchinson spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft 3 the prisoner of war camp of Wooden Horse and Great Escape fame."

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

Interest to someone I hope.

All the best, Andrew.
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...mcat/Mossi.jpg

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

Brilliant photo! Where a better scan can be obtained?

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

The picture is a scan of the original, owned by me.

Regards Andrew.

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

Hello guys!
Firstly I must beg your pardon for not answering soon, but I was travelling and really did not have access to the net.
This is very interesting, because I read somewhere too that this particular Mosquito ( W4056 - which you Andrew added a very magnific photograph to the pleasure of most of us... ) could have been shot down by those two JG 5 pilots mentioned early. And, yes, they manouvered ( it seems so ) so sharply that a Bf 109 spun and crashed down...
HOWEVER, on a Mosquito claims' list I found it seems that Oblt Herbert Huppertz from 12/JG 1 claimed a Mosquito that same 2 April 1942 near Trondheim...
WHO indeed claimed and shot down this Mosquito.
2nd Question: What kind of damage the Mosquito sustained, because it seems impossible to fly without a tailplane...They could have been hit - this I do agree, but to loose the tail...and land!? I lost a good friend down here in Brazil, a "crop duster" pilot with more than 3,500 hs when he lost the tail of an aircraft he bought and was travelling aboard...Even Super Man can not fly a plane without the horizontal stabilizer!
Yours
Adriano
PS3: Andrew, do you know the "targets" for W4056 on 2th April 1942? Was it Trondheim or something related to the Kriegsmarine?