Date:	Saturday 11 May 1940
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Owner/operator:	85 Sqn RAF
Registration:	N2388
MSN:	VY-R
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	between Tongres and St Trond, near Maastricht, Limburg -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Lille/Seclin, France
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 N2338 (VY-R) of 85 Squadron, RAF: Written off in combat operations - officially described as "Hurricane N2388 shot down between Tongres and St Trond, Liege, Belgium, 11 May 1940. Acting Flight Lieutenant R H A Lee missing, later reported safe and rejoined unit". Flight Lt R H A Lee bailed out after an encounter with a Do.17, near Maastricht. 11.5.1940. According to one source "On the 11th" [ May 1940] "after shooting down two enemy aircraft, he was himself shot down by flak and captured. Lee escaped and made his way back to his squadron."

Crew: Flight Lt (33208) Richard Hugh Anthony 'Dickie' Lee (pilot) RAF - bailed out OK

Note that the pilot and the aircraft appear to have come down a considerable distance apart - in fact, in two different countries!

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-N9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/261: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14142086
3. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/85_squadron.html
4. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1940-1949_28.html
5. http://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/LeeRHA.htm

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

19 May 1940	P2923	85 Sqn RAF	0	near Lille		w/o
20 May 1940	P3426	85 Sqn RAF	1	near Amiens, Somme department of the Picardy region		w/o
18 August 1940	P2923	85 Sqn RAF	1	sea 30 miles East of Clacton, Essex.		w/o

Flight Lieutenant R H A Lee and Flying Officer K H Blair, after being decorated by King George VI at RAF Hornchurch, Essex, 27 June 1940

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Jun-2015 12:05	Thomas Fuk	Added
08-Jun-2015 17:11	INV	Updated [Total fatalities]
20-Jun-2019 21:27	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
17-Jun-2022 12:39	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]