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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: | S of Duisburg -
Germany
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Rosieres-en-Santerre, France |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV L1280 (DX-C) of 57 Squadron, RAF. Took off 25 January 1940 from Rosieres-en-Santerre, France on a Reconnaissance sortie over North Western Germany. 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 of Blenheim L1280:
Pilot Officer (Pilot) John Noel O'Reilly-Blackwood, RAF 42474, 57 Sqn., killed in action 25/01/1940
Sergeant (Observer) Douglas James Bendall, RAF 580596, 57 Sqn., age 24, killed in action 25/01/1940
Aircraftman 2nd Class (Wireless Op/Air Gunner) John Raymond Hunter, RAF 625656, 57 Sqn., killed in action 25/01/1940
All three occupants were buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery in Germany.
Sources:
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
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Sep-2015 17:50 |
gerard57 |
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20-Oct-2015 17:54 |
Jixn |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
12-Feb-2016 17:46 |
MrBean1941 |
Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-Oct-2018 06:47 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
06-Jun-2019 01:03 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
08-Jun-2019 10:42 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
16-Apr-2020 16:16 |
TB |
Updated [Location, Source] |