Date:	Saturday 25 July 1942
Time:	day
Type:	Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I
Owner/operator:	277 Sqn RAF
Registration:	V1117
MSN:	612
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	English Channel, 4 miles North of Dunkirk, Department of Nord -   France
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Martlesham Heath, Suffolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Boulton Paul Defiant V1117, 277 Squadron, aircraft shot down by enemy aircraft while searching for missing pilot, English Channel, 25 July 1942.

They were bounced by six Fw190s as soon as they arrived in the search area. One of the escorting Spitfires was hit and crashed into the sea. Uffw Karl Borner 9/JG26 ("Yellow Eight") was credited with shooting down Defiant V1117, which came down 4 miles off Dunkirk, France. It was reported that Defiant V1117 was on fire and exploded on impact with the sea. This was the 48th & last Defiant shot down in combat. Both crew posted as missing in action, believed killed.

Crew:
Flight Sergeant John Stanley George ARUNDEL (R/83862) Pilot, RCAF, aged 21, on assignment from 411 Squadron RCAF - missing in action, believed killed in action 25 July 1942.
Sergeant William George BUNN (940626) Observer, RAF aged 24 - missing in action, believed killed in action 25 July 1942.

As no trace of Defiant V1117 or its two crew were ever found, they are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1997)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/16178: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17478381
3. 277 Squadron ORB for July 1942: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 50/108: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1912637
4. CWGC: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1082975/john-stanley-george-arundel/
5. CWGC: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1530818/william-george-bunn/
6. http://aircrewremembered.com/arundel-john.html
7. https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1082975
8. https://canadianfallen.ca/75004/ARUNDEL
9. https://data2.archives.ca/dm16/d16/KIA/42127_83024005548_0027-00254.pdf
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk#Dunkirk_in_World_War_II

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Feb-2008 23:34	JINX	Added
22-Apr-2015 16:11	Jixon	Updated [Operator, Phase, Source, Narrative]
19-Feb-2018 20:51	Red Dragon	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
04-Oct-2018 13:07	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
04-Oct-2018 13:08	Nepa	Updated [Destination airport, Operator]