Date:	Saturday 1 June 1940
Time:	05:40 LT
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire Mk I
Owner/operator:	222 (Natal) Sqn RAF
Registration:	P9339
MSN:	542
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Bouquehault, 16 km south of Calais, Pas de Calais -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Hornchurch, Essex
Destination airport:

Narrative:
P9339: Spitfire Mk.Ia (c/no 542) First Flown 13-2-40. Delivered to the RAF at 6 MU 25-2-40. Issued to 222 (Natal) Squadron 16-3-40 as "ZD-J". Shot down by Bf 109 on patrol over Dunkerque 1-6-40; pilot killed. Total Flying Hours 92.05.

According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident: "Spitfire P9339 crashed at Bouquehault, France, 1 June 1940. Pilot Officer G Massey-Sharpe: report of death".

Airborne from RAF Hornchurch, Essex for a dawn combat air patrol over the Dunkirk area. Shot down in air to air combat by a Bf 109 at Bouquehault, 15 km south of Calais, Pas de Calais, France, and killed in action. However, some sources state the the Spitfire collided head-on with a Bf 110C of Oberlt Möller of 2./ZG1 at 05:40 hrs; P/O Gerald Massey-Sharpe was killed, and the crew of the Bf 110C bailed out and were captured.

Crew of Spitfire P9339:
Pilot Officer (Pilot) Gerald Massey-Sharpe, RAF 41857, age 19, killed in action 01/06/1940, buried at Pihen-les-Guines Cemetery (near Dunkirk), Pas de Calais, France

The reported crash location of Bouquehault is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France, located 10 miles (16 km) south of Calais, at approximate Coordinates: 50°49′38″N 1°54′15″E.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 52)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/721: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502498
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2280516/massey-sharpe,-gerald/
4. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/222_squadron.html#0106
5. http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=5156
6. http://aircrewremembered.com/massey-sharpe-gerald.html
7. https://forum.keypublishing.com/forum/historic-aviation/100942-spitfire-p9339-222-sqn-shot-down-1-june-1940
8. http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=18668
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouquehault

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
03-Aug-2008 23:16	Anon.	Added
27-Dec-2011 07:12	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
10-Nov-2012 01:50	angels one five	Updated [Aircraft type, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
10-Nov-2012 02:34	angels one five	Updated [Aircraft type, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
25-Feb-2014 00:59	angels one five	Updated [Operator, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]
09-Jun-2015 09:35	Angel dick one	Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
02-Sep-2019 23:33	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
02-Sep-2019 23:51	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Country, Source, Narrative, ]
02-Sep-2019 23:52	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, ]
03-Sep-2019 19:44	stehlík49	Updated [Operator, ]
08-Sep-2019 02:46	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Damage, ]