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| Date: | Friday 6 December 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Vickers Wellesley Mk1 |
| Owner/operator: | 47 Squadron RAF |
| Registration: | K8521 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | -
 Eritrea
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Sennar |
| RAF Sennar |
5 aircraft from squadron tasked with bombing Burie in Eritrea. Take of was 08:15
K8521 was shot down during the sortie
Crew:
44069 P/O Basil Baxter WITTY - PoW - died of wounds 12-12-1940 - Addis Ababa War Cemetery, Ethiopia
1071646 Sgt George BONNAR - PoW
79374 P/O Paul Albert HUNT - PoW
Sources:
1. National Archives Kew - 47 Sqdn ORB Record of Events doc AIR27/463/14 page 2
2. Bomber Command Losses In the Middle East and Med. (Volume 1: 1939-1942) David Gunby & Pelham Temple, page 33
3. https://aviationaoi.com/en/6-december-1940/
4. CWGC
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Dec-2024 17:02 | redwine163 | Added |
| 05-Sep-2025 08:39 | MMR | Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
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