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?

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

A tiny bit of more info here:
http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/hammervatnet.html

regards flyvrak

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

W4056 objective stated only as Trondheim

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

Flyvrak, thanks for remembering me of this amazing site, which seems to be yours! Fantastic work of Archeology one must admit!
Andy, thanks for pointing me to Trondheim again.

Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required
 

Sorry Henk, should have resonded earlier, pilot was Iain Hutchinson:

http://www.thisisdorset.net/mostpopu...es_aged_88.php

Edit - info I have on the lost 109 is: "One of those fighters was hit by parts from the british plane, the pilot baled out, but drowned. Before the Mosquito have to emergency land, they shoot down one Bf 109 F4 werk.no.7207 Yellow 2 from 8./JG5 Pilot Adolf Pürzl was kill.The Bf 109 chased in PQ 9444/06ost. (http://f16.parsimony.net/forum28300/messages/3585.htm) "