ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 239054
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Date: | Tuesday 1 August 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Bristol Beaufighter TF Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 252 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LZ530 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Ionian Sea, south off Oxia - Position: 38.00N 20.57E. -
Greece
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Gambut, Libya |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Beaufighter LZ530/K: (252Sqn) Took off at 05:35 hrs for armed recco. 01/08/1944
Shot down by flak in Ionian sea south off Oxia. Position: 38.00N 20.57E. Lost off the coast of Greece.
Crew:
F/O (J/86504 ) John Duncan CLARK (pilot) RCAF - Killed.
F/Lt (112.723)Edwin Alfred Cecil YOUNG (nav.) RAFVR - killed
Sources:
http://aviationarchaeology.gr/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Beaufighter-losses-in-Greece-1941-19464.pdf Beaufighter-losses-in-Greece-1941-19464.pdf
ORB 252 Sqdn RAF
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Aug-2020 21:41 |
Nepa |
Added [Operator] |
17-May-2022 20:24 |
Nepa |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
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