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Post by andym on Dec 18, 2023 13:56:15 GMT
As related in "Bristol Beaufighter", LX912/T was lost with 47 Sqn on 12.11.43.
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Dec 18, 2023 14:26:27 GMT
That is clearly very interesting Andy (ref to LX802)
Our new Beaufighter book has not picked up on that, and just lists "arrived 10.7.43; no record of service; missing (no further details) 2.9.1943".
None of the crew members are listed in the Index.
The aircraft (without serial number) is listed in Shores' et al Med Air War Vol 4 page 328.
So how did the author of your book find that out? Does the book say which aircraft 'G' was, since it was also lost during the same convoy attack?
B Rgds Stig
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Dec 18, 2023 14:43:10 GMT
As related in "Bristol Beaufighter", LX912/T was lost with 47 Sqn on 12.11.43. This loss is in MAW Vol 5 since No 47 Sq had been withdrawn to eastern Libya close to the Egyptian border and was lost to Flak off Crete B Rgds Stig
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Post by andym on Dec 18, 2023 15:37:34 GMT
That is clearly very interesting Andy (ref to LX802) Our new Beaufighter book has not picked up on that, and just lists "arrived 10.7.43; no record of service; missing (no further details) 2.9.1943". None of the crew members are listed in the Index. The aircraft (without serial number) is listed in Shores' et al Med Air War Vol 4 page 328. So how did the author of your book find that out? Does the book say which aircraft 'G' was, since it was also lost during the same convoy attack? Stig, No, G is not identified, so yet another one to add to the large pile of "to be confirmed". I have no idea of the exact sources used by Owen Clark for that info, but among his listed sources are countless squadron members, log books etc etc. There is more "new" information which I will post when I have some more spare time.
Andy
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Dec 18, 2023 16:35:13 GMT
What a pity Andy....
Always looking forward to your highly interesting "snippets" gathered here and there. Make the days that much more rewarding!!
Cheers Stig
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Post by andym on Dec 19, 2023 11:26:45 GMT
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Post by andym on Dec 21, 2023 9:35:26 GMT
Lancaster LM227 served with 576 Sqn (not 476 Sqn which is a typo).
According to its AM78, Lancaster LM227 of 576 Sqn was Cat E on 16 October 1945. This will have been the cause of its strike three days later.
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Dec 21, 2023 15:57:04 GMT
How odd Andy
Since it is so easy to read that even I can see it, I wonder why everyone else simply has ignored it. Not in our Broken Wings nor in Cummings The Price of Peace. Since Cat E indicated the aircraft was missing one must wonder how that was possible in peacetime, and if, let's say, lost over the ocean somewhere, what happened to the crew?
Cheers Stig
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Post by andym on Dec 21, 2023 16:26:23 GMT
I thought Cat Em was missing? Cat E is "just" a write-off.
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Dec 21, 2023 16:32:24 GMT
Ah, OK
But some kind of accident must have taken place and I wonder what that was and why everyone who has compiled accidents simply seems to disregard it.
Very odd Cheers Stig
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