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Date: | Monday 13 May 1940 |
Time: | |
Type: | Westland Lysander Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 4 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | P9063 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Outgaarden, Flemish Brabant -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Monchy-la-Gache |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation: Tactical reconnaissance
AC2 (626134) Edwin MOLD (Wop/AG) RAF - killed Outgaarden Communal Cemetery, B
P/O (33493) Peter W. VAUGHAN (pilot) RAF - killed Outgaarden Communal Cemetery, B
Took off 07.30 hrs from Monchy-la-Gache. Flew over German positions on banks of Gete river. Shot down by Lt Horst Braxator from 2./JG1. (De Decker/Roba: 1.JG1). Plane crashes in field next to Outgaarden/Goetsenhoven road
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (Jaems J Halley, Air Britain, 1978)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/327:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502321 3.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2896539/mold,-edwin/ 4.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2896540/vaughan,-peter-william/ 5. Cynrick De Decker and Jean Louis Roba, Mei 1940 boven België. de luchtstrijd tijdens de Achttiendaagse Veldtocht, De Krijger, 1993
6. Peter D. Cornwell, The Battle of France, Then and Now, 2008
7.
http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/4_squadron.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Jun-2011 11:47 |
ThW |
Added |
18-Jun-2011 11:48 |
ThW |
Updated [Date, Source] |
17-Jun-2013 18:33 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative] |
14-Aug-2013 11:39 |
JINX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport] |
19-Oct-2018 19:49 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator] |
29-Jun-2019 02:28 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
12-Nov-2022 18:59 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |