Date:	Saturday 11 May 1940
Time:	15:30 LT
Type:	Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Owner/operator:	17 Sqn RAF
Registration:	N2556
MSN:	YB-I
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Dike View Farm, West Biesakkersweg, Numansdorp, Zuid-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Hawker Hurricane N2556 (YB-I) 17 Squadron, RAF: Lost on combat operations - officially described as "Acting Flight Lieutenant M S Donne: report of death; Hurricane N2556 failed to return from an operational flight over The Hague, The Netherlands, 11 May 1940". Shot down during patrol in combat with Bf 109s of JG 51 at Dike View Farm, West Biesakkerweg, Numansdorp, Zuid-Holland near Rotterdam, Netherlands. Pilot killed

Crew: Flight Lt (33186) Michael Stephen DONNE (pilot) RAF - Killed in action; buried at Numansdorp Protestant Cemetery, Zuid Holland, Netherlands

17 Squadron lost 5 Hurricanes in a few minutes, all by JG 51 who claimed 5 Hurricanes in combat over Doordrecht.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/254: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14142079
3. Norman L.R. Franks, Fighter Command Losses, Vol 1, 1939-1941, Second edition, Midland, 2008
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2635476/donne,-michael-stephen/
5. http://aircrewremembered.com/donne-michael.html
6. https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0467&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
7. Photo of wreckage: http://www.nederlandseluchtvaart.nl/forums/showthread.php?40386-Onbekend-RAF-vliegtuig&s=c63019ecc3f52b8f5a0cb89802e9e499&p=73835#post73835

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
26-Feb-2010 09:45	penguin832	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Narrative]
29-Jun-2011 00:02	ThW	Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
03-Jan-2012 13:42	Nepa	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative]
09-Aug-2013 00:27	JINX	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative]
09-May-2015 08:18	Angel dot comma	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
30-Sep-2015 05:44	sandman56	Updated [Narrative]
19-Jun-2019 23:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
19-Jun-2019 23:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
17-Mar-2020 15:15	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location]