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Date: | Saturday 11 May 1940 |
Time: | 15:30 LT |
Type: | Hawker Hurricane Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 17 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N2556 |
MSN: | YB-I |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Dike View Farm, West Biesakkersweg, Numansdorp, Zuid-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Hawker Hurricane N2556 (YB-I) 17 Squadron, RAF: Lost on combat operations - officially described as "Acting Flight Lieutenant M S Donne: report of death; Hurricane N2556 failed to return from an operational flight over The Hague, The Netherlands, 11 May 1940". Shot down during patrol in combat with Bf 109s of JG 51 at Dike View Farm, West Biesakkerweg, Numansdorp, Zuid-Holland near Rotterdam, Netherlands. Pilot killed
Crew: Flight Lt (33186) Michael Stephen DONNE (pilot) RAF - Killed in action; buried at Numansdorp Protestant Cemetery, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
17 Squadron lost 5 Hurricanes in a few minutes, all by JG 51 who claimed 5 Hurricanes in combat over Doordrecht.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/254:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14142079 3. Norman L.R. Franks, Fighter Command Losses, Vol 1, 1939-1941, Second edition, Midland, 2008
4.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2635476/donne,-michael-stephen/ 5.
http://aircrewremembered.com/donne-michael.html 6.
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0467&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= 7. Photo of wreckage:
http://www.nederlandseluchtvaart.nl/forums/showthread.php?40386-Onbekend-RAF-vliegtuig&s=c63019ecc3f52b8f5a0cb89802e9e499&p=73835#post73835 Revision history:
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sandman56 |
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19-Jun-2019 23:25 |
Dr. John Smith |
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Dr. John Smith |
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