Mosquito night fighter loss.......

Well, different internet sources say this was a ACCIDENT.

But this is internet and they didn't name their sources, AFAICS...

MARTIN???

 

Oh dear - I feel like someone arriving at a party just as everyone else is leaving !

Stevin's identified the only websites I can find ( & then some ! ). I have looked right through my entire Mosquito library and can find nothing to help...

This is not surprising. There's a 'gap in the market' here. There are loads and loads of books giving the minutest technical details of the aircraft - but as to men and missions, really pathetically little ! Likewise the archive of the Mosquito Museum - great for 'planes, not for men.

This is surprising - rather like the non-existent Lancaster website. I can find information about the fate of every Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster and Halifax from books - but not the Mosquito. And there is not much either about claims and successes.

So - I shall keept looking but I do feel rather empty-headed about this question that I would dearly love to answer !!

( PS : Erich - the site is rather slow, I know - but maybe it's worth posting a request on the Mosquito Forum site ? )

 

From Neil Hutchinson.......using Norman Franks work: RAF fighter command losses. Another book I need to pick up I think. Covers fighters and fighter bombers.

KIA over Holsbeck, wherever that maybe. Mossie NF 30 shot down by an a/c of II./NJG 2, which fits perfectly with my info though scant as it is.
Killed were pilot Sqd./Ld. DL Ryalls
F/Lt. JB Hampson

Still think though that the area maybe as Stevin mentioned.....Hilbeck, Germany

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another mail this morn from rainy Belgium....

" The crew were killed in action over Holsbeek, Belgium and are buried at Evere near Brussels."
Now to find info on Hauptmann Kamsteiß and crew.
Belgium makes a whole lot of sense now... !

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DUH! Belgium! Major brain-fart! So, Can I take the blinders off now? Why didn't I think of that? This mossie was not Green's mossie though, if the crew was KIA.

 

Well you still have me very curious as to Green's shoot down. Maybe Norman Franks book..... ? Oh Martin ?.......


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