Nachtjagdgeschwader claims for 5/6/8/41

[noggin]

Has anybody details of a Nachtjagdgeschwader claim for this : Hampden I AE120 of 106 Squadron, RAF. The aircraft had left RAF Coningsby at 22.25 hrs on 5th August, 1941. The RAF's objective for this night was a combined operation against targets in Mannheim and Ludwigshafen, Germany. The bomber was intercepted by a night fighter and was shot down. At 01.00 hrs in the morning of 6th August, 1941, AE120 crashed onto the dwelling and carpenter's workshop of the Lammers family, at the corner of the Luimesweg and Den Dam in Breedenbroek, killing all four crew as well as the two young children, Gerda Johanna Lammers (4 years) and her brother Hendrik (12). Of the 33 Hampdens on this operation, only AE120 failed to return safely. The four crew were buried at the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Gendringen:

[Chris Goss]

According to Theo Boiten, no matches for this loss for a night fighter?

[noggin]

I couldn't find one either , but I thought I'd ask the more knowledgeable.

[Theo Boiten]

Here's the claim entry in the NJWD 2nd ed., -Flak of the 4. Flak Division, not Nachtjagd:

-106 Sqn Hampden AE120: hit by 1. & 3./Res. Flak Abt. 401, 1.-3./Res. Flak Abt. 447 and 3./Res. Flak Abt. 646, crashed at Gendringen at 01.00 hrs.

It is one of some 1,900 Flak claims plus matching Allied losses that Rod Mackenzie and I have carefully documented during the research of the NJWD 2nd edition, all of which will be presented in the volumes of the new book (plus of course some 7,000 Nachtjagd claims/matchings to claims).

Cheers, Theo

[noggin]

Thank you very much.