ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340939
Date: | Sunday 13 June 1943 |
Time: | 20:00 |
Type: | Short Sunderland III |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | DV967 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | off Finisterre, Spain -
Atlantic Ocean
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Pembroke Dock RAF Station |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The Short Sunderland flying boat was patrolling a sector of the Bay of Biscay near Finisterre. A group of five U boats was spotted and the Sunderland dropped depth charges around one of them (U564). The aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed.
Sources:
Keymerand Clayton War Memorials: Flt Lt Desmond Fairfax Hill, RAFVR Revision history:
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