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Graveyard Mystery... unidentified missing bodies of Handley Page Hampden bomber

At half past midnight on the 15th of December 1941, four men took off in a Handley Page Hampden twin-engine medium bomber from RAF Balderton, an airfield two mile south of Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire. They were flying with No. 408 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force and were detailed to bomb docks at Cherbourg in France. It would be a 472 mile round trip to France and back from Nottinghamshire, taking place in complete darkness. ➜ Photos & more detail: https://nfhwa.org/hampden-p5392-longd... Tragically, the four airmen would never return to the airfield, as their Hampden crashed a few hours later in the New Forest near Longdown. All were killed. They were recovered by a rescue crew from nearby RAF Calshot. Whilst two of the aircrew were identified, one body wasn't, and one body wasn't even found... so why four graves? In memorial to the crew of Handley Page Hampden, serial P5392 of No. 408 (RCAF) Squadron: Sgt Eric William Sterling, pilot, age 29, British. Sgt John Charles Tomlin, navigator, age 21, Canadian. Sgt Cyril Charles Gibson, wireless operator, age 20, British.  F/Sgt Wilfred Roy Williams, wireless operator, age 20, British. Buried at All Saints Churchyard in Fawley, Hampshire. Crash clip from    • WW2 plane crashes part 2   00:00 Introduction 00:25 The Bombing Raid 02:03 The Crash and Inferno 02:52 The Bodies 03:42 The Graves 04:42 The Mystery