ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 239167
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Date: | Thursday 2 September 1943 |
Time: | |
Type: | Bristol Beaufighter Mk VIc |
Owner/operator: | 227 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JL522 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Mediterranean Sea near Kos. -
Greece
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Limassol, Cyprus |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Beaufighter JL522/Z: Took off at 10:28 hrs with three others for Offensive recco mission. 02/09/1943
Failed to return. While carrying out a strike near Cos, hit the sea and exploded after the port wing struck the mast of a caique.
Crew:
F/Lt (NZ412789) Walter Young McGREGOR DFC (pilot) RNZAF - Killed by flak immediately before the crash.
F/O (112.720) Cyril Ernest TURNER (nav.) RAFVR - survived to became POW
Sources:
http://aviationarchaeology.gr/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Beaufighter-losses-in-Greece-1941-19464.pdf ORB 227 Sqdn RAF
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Aug-2020 11:01 |
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Added [Operator] |
02-May-2022 18:48 |
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Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
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