HP Hampden P4321 of 49 Sqn

[Larry]

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.

[Doghouses]

Originally Posted by Aknevelman

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

[Larry]

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.

[Doghouses]

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.