Date:	Friday 29 March 1940
Time:	09:15
Type:	Hawker Hurricane Mk 1
Owner/operator:	73 Sqn RAF
Registration:	P2570
MSN:	TP-R
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Brienne-le-Château, Aube -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Rouvres, France
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 P2570 (TP-R) of 73 Squadron, RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) in combat operations on 29 March 1940. Shot down at 09:15 hours by Oberlt Boenigk of 9./JG 53 during attack on Do 17 of 2.(F)/22 and overturned in a forced-landing at Brienne-le-Château, Aube department in north-central France, 26 miles northeast of Troyes at (approximate Coordinates: 48°23′31″N 4°31′35″E). Pilot killed

Crew: Pilot Officer (Pilot) James Garland 'Tubs' Perry, RAF Service Number 40424, 73 Sqn., age 22; killed in action, buried at Chambieres French National Cemetery, Metz, France

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 15)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/108: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14141930
3. The Battle of France, Then and Now, 2008; Norman L.R. Franks, Fighter Command Losses, Vol 1, 1939-1941, Second edition, Midland, 2008
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2320382/perry,-james-garland/
5. http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=4897
6. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/73_squadron.html
7. http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/a-letter-from-pilot-officer-henry-hall-to-his-daughter.73352/
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brienne-le-Ch%C3%A2teau

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Jun-2019 23:22	Dr. John Smith	Added
08-Jun-2019 10:38	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
30-Jun-2022 08:59	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]