Date:	Saturday 1 June 1940
Time:
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire Mk I
Owner/operator:	616 (South Yorkshire) Sqn RAF
Registration:	K9948
MSN:	161
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	English Channel off Dunkirk -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Rochford Essex
Destination airport:

Narrative:
K9948 Spitfire Mk.Ia (c/no.161). First Flown 26-4-39. Delivered to 66 Squadron 28-4-39. To 74 Squadron and coded 'JH-H' 2-5-39. To 616 (South Yorkshire) Squadron 11-11-39.

Failed To Return on operations 1-6-40: Ditched after attacking 8 Bf.109s. Pilot (Flying Officer J.S. Bell) strafed but unharmed and rescued by RN ship. Total flying hours 244.5

Squadron Operation Book, National Archive *Air Britain The K File The RAF of the 1930s
http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/yorkshire/york40/k9948.html
http://www.redtwo.plus.com/616/personnela_d.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20120512012136/http://www.thesoutheastecho.co.uk/Squadrons/616_squadron.htm

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8 January 1940

K9948

616 (South Yorkshire) Sqn RAF

0

RAF Church Fenton, Yorkshire, England.

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-Feb-2008 10:30	JINX	Added
13-Mar-2008 02:29	wedge	Updated
28-Mar-2008 23:27	JINX	Updated
25-Dec-2011 15:30	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source]
17-Jan-2012 04:17	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source]
06-May-2012 15:38	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative]
30-May-2012 00:51	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
04-Nov-2012 20:20	angels one five	Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative]