ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339874
Date: | Monday 12 June 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Short Sunderland III |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | ML880 |
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Fatalities: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Bay of Biscay -
Atlantic Ocean
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Pembroke Dock RAF Station |
Destination airport: | Pembroke Dock RAF Station |
Narrative:Short Sunderland ML880 of 228 Sqn RAF took off from RAF Pembroke Dock at 18:10 on 11 June 1944, to carry out an anti-submarine patrol in the Bay of Biscay. It was due back at base at 07:25 hours on 12 June, but failed to return.
No signals were received from the aircraft and it was assumed that it was shot down by either enemy surface craft or U boat, and that the crew were all lost at sea. A German broadcast was heard the following day claiming that two Sunderlands had been shot down in the Bay of Bisay area.
Sources:
Missing with no known grave / by Alan Storr Revision history:
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