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Date: | Saturday 11 July 1942 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Fairey Battle TT Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 1 OTU RAF |
Registration: | L5717 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Solway Firth, 3 miles east of Southerness Point, Dumfries-shire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Silloth, Cumberland |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Fairey Battle L5717: 1 OTU (Operational Training Unit) RAF Silloth, Cumberland. Delivered 14 June 1940. Written off (destroyed) 11 July 1942 when engine failed and aircraft ditched and sank into the Solway Firth, 3 miles East of Southerness Point, Dumfries-shire (at approximate coordinates 54"50.0' N, 3"40.0" W). Of the two crew, one was killed (drowned) and the other was rescued
Crew of Battle L5717:
Corporal (Kapral) Jozef Krzysztoszek (Pilot, Polish Air Force, Service Number P/783216) - killed on active service 11/7/1942, body recovered, buried at Causewayhead Cemetery, Silloth, Cumberland
AC1 Z.E. Martin RAF (Winch operator) - survived and rescued
Sources:
1. The Battle File (Sidney Shail, Air Britain, 1997 p.156)
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1979 p.37)
3.
http://www.polishwargraves.nl/brit/4208.htm 4.
https://canmore.org.uk/site/300060/fairey-battle-i-solway-firth 5.
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?19678-1-OTU-Logbook-Entries 6.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7503781/JOZEF%20KRZYSZTOSZEK/ 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southerness 8.
https://listakrzystka.pl/en/krzysztoszek-jozef/ 9.
https://www.polishairforce.pl/_cmsilloth.html (Polish Text)
10.
https://linia.com.pl/2018/09/28/szkolil-pilotow-z-dywizjonu-303/ (Polish text)
11.
https://niebieskaeskadra.pl/?control=8&id=618&title=krzysztoszek-jozef (Polish text)
12.
https://www.facebook.com/TygodnikLiniaOtwocka/posts/2233818483359050/ (Polish text)
13.
https://cumbria.pl/2-listopad-wizyta-na-grobach-polskich-zolnierzy-w-silloth/ (Polish text)
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
29-Mar-2008 22:57 |
JINX |
Added |
11-Oct-2011 10:25 |
rvargast17 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
09-Nov-2018 20:50 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator] |
25-Oct-2020 20:44 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
25-Oct-2020 20:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Nature, Source, Narrative] |
26-Oct-2020 11:20 |
Digger |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Narrative, Operator] |