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Post by andym on Nov 20, 2021 13:23:20 GMT
Blenheim AZ941 was lost on 2.12.4 3, not in 1941 (I doubt if it had even been delivered by Dec41). This is confirmed by the CWGC entries for the two crew. A few more details are here: www.hambo.org/lancing/view_man.php?id=371The aircraft was coded 74, there is a photo of the wreck on Page 85 of "Lincolnshire Air War 1939-1945 Book Two" (S.Finn, 1983).
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Post by andym on Nov 30, 2021 20:27:25 GMT
With thanks again to the RAF Commands forum, Tomahawk AN446 was lost on 6.9.42, when serving with 5 Sqn SAAF: The details are confirmed in the 5 Sqn ORB
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Post by andym on Jan 9, 2022 19:28:42 GMT
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Jan 9, 2022 20:04:15 GMT
Andy
My file of the AA100-AZ999 file just says 'transferred to South Africa for SAAF and SRAF'
Checking the Harvard File we have 20SFTS crashed Hatfield, Salisbury, SR 23.1.1942 Looking at Google where this non-British Hatfield might have been, there is a Hatfield basically within Harare, Salisbury, Zimbabwe (then South Rhodesia) and a Hatfield within the Pretoria border in South Africa. 20TFTS was based at Cranborne which is listed in South Rhodesia (todays Zimbabwe) and I feel it is a lot more chance the aircraft actually crashed at Hatfield, SR than Hatfield, South Africa as stated by the National Archives....but the unit is correct!
Cheers Stig
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Post by andym on Feb 19, 2022 12:14:23 GMT
Heinkel He111 AW177 (WNr.6853) was an HWO-built He111H-3, not an He111H-1
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Feb 19, 2022 14:07:14 GMT
Indeed it is Andy
My copy of AA100 - AZ999 even has a misprint, writing AW174! On the other hand it only states He 111 H and no sub type.
I wonder if some RAF document states H-1 since that is was Phil Butler states in War Prizes. But again, it certainly was a H-3
Ironically I believe this aircraft killed more British citizens while in British service than it had done while with the Luftwaffe.
B Rgds Stig
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Post by andym on Aug 9, 2022 16:13:37 GMT
Beaufort AW375 is listed as: "42/39 Crashed on take-off, Bu Amud, 17.5.42" Surely this was lost with 42 Sqn on that date, on operations against the Prinz Eugen: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17207001Strangely "The Beaufort File", published 10 years earlier, has the correct details.
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Aug 9, 2022 17:43:09 GMT
Agree it is a bit odd that one Andy
However the AA100 - AZ999 volume was published in 1985 that is five years ahead of the Beaufort File
Strange that the loss date is the same in both volumes.
Since Bu Amud was obviously the landing ground in Libya, I checked MAW Vol 2, but nothing particular is recorded on that day.
Cheers Stig
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Aug 9, 2022 17:50:57 GMT
I think I just found a culprit
If you check AW358 you will no doubt agree that it sounds very similar to what is said about AW375 with regard to 39 Sq. I have no idea how Jim handled the data back in the 1970/80s, but I doubt he was No 1 in UK to get a computer....
Cheers Stig
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Post by andym on Aug 11, 2022 12:21:27 GMT
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Aug 11, 2022 20:22:56 GMT
Ho, ho Andy Clearly missed our booklet was out one year....sight...... Thanks for the pointer Cheers Stig
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Post by andym on Aug 28, 2022 8:19:56 GMT
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Post by andym on Sept 29, 2022 13:22:02 GMT
As per the AM78, the correct strike date for Tomahawk AK555 is 29.4.4 2. According to a post on the RAF Commands forum, this aircraft was shot down on 25.4.42. The pilot, Lt Christian Knut Langaard baled out over the sea and was recovered injured from the water, but died on 10 May 42 when the hospital ship Ramb IV was bombed and sunk whilst evacuating patients from Tobruk to Egypt.
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Post by andym on Oct 28, 2022 10:54:03 GMT
Mohawk IV AR657 became SAAF 2520
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Post by andym on Oct 29, 2022 18:04:37 GMT
Some more SAAF Mohawk serials. These are taken from reference to "Curtiss Design 75 Hawk" (Hagedorn & Tincopa, European Airlines, 2021) - a nice book indeed! AR689 to SAAF 2553 AX880 to SAAF 2519 AX881 to SAAF 2540 AX883 to SAAF 2512 AX884 to SAAF 2530 AX887 to SAAF 2513 AX888 to SAAF 2570 AX890 to SAAF 2571
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