Accident Hawker Typhoon Mk IB MN687,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 200951
 
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Date:Saturday 12 August 1944
Time:19:20
Type:Silhouette image of generic typh model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Hawker Typhoon Mk IB
Owner/operator:438 (Wild Cat) Sqn RCAF
Registration: MN687
MSN: F3-S
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Flers, Normandy -   France
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Lantheuil
Destination airport:
Narrative:
3 x Typhoons took of at 19h00 to hit a bridge at Flers. This aircraft received a direct flak hit and exploded in mid air during its attack dive.

Aircraft was flown by J/11316 Flight Lieutenant Theodore Alexander Bugg (RCAF)

Sources:

438 SQN RCAF archives.
https://backtonormandy.org
https://aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=11316&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
https://caspir.warplane.com/pdoc/pn/600002488/
438 Sqn war time records from historical microfilms at https://heritage.canadiana.ca/
Personnel file of F/L Bugg from Ancestry.ca WW2 military records
https://www.thetyphoonproject.org/438/Theodore%20Alexander-Bugg.html
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=mn687

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
13 January 1945 PD569 438 (Wild Cat) Sqn RCAF 0 3 miles W of Maastricht, Limburg sub

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Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
05-Nov-2017 16:58 tachel Added
15-Dec-2017 20:33 tachel Updated [Cn]
21-Mar-2021 17:50 tachel Updated [Photo]
24-Dec-2023 15:27 tachel Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative]

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