Date:	Thursday 25 January 1940
Time:	14:20
Type:	Bristol Blenheim Mk I
Owner/operator:	57 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L1280
MSN:	DX-C
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	south of Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia -   Germany
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Rosieres-en-Santerre, France
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Blenheim L1280/C : Took off for a Reconnaissance sortie over North Western Germany. 25/01/1940
Shot down by Shot down by Fw Scherer of 2./JGr.102 during a reconnaissance mission south of Duisburg, North Rhine Westphalia. All three crew killed.
Crew:
P/O (42474) John Noel O'Reilly-Blackwood (pilot) RAF - killed
Sgt (580596) Douglas James Bendall (obs) RAF - killed
AC2 (625656) John Raymond Hunter(WOp/AG) RAF - killed

All three occupants were buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery in Germany.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 7)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/88: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14141910
3. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/57_squadron.html#2501
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2040825/o'reilly-blackwood,-john-noel/
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2036873/bendall,-douglas-james/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2055707/hunter,-john-raymond/
Jenaer Volksblatt 27 January 1939

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
30-Sep-2015 17:50	gerard57	Added
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12-Feb-2016 17:46	MrBean1941	Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
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