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Date: | Sunday 12 May 1940 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Hawker Hurricane Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 1 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | L1688 |
MSN: | JX-R |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Maastricht, Limburg -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Berry-au-Bac, France |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 L1688, 1 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) in combat over Maastricht, Netherlands when shot down by Bf 109s of JG 27 during a bomber escort mission. Pilot bailed out safely. According to the official Air Ministry file on the incident (File AIR 81/305): "Pilot Officer R G Lewis: missing, later reported safe and returned to unit; Hurricane lost in air operations, 12 May 1940"
Escorted a flight of Fairey Battles of 12 Squadron. Baled out after combat with Me 109's of 2./JG27 west of Maastricht. Pilot Officer Raymond Grant Lewis (Service Number 41852) landed in Belgium, was locked in a cellar by local civilians but eventually released. Another version is that he was captured by the Germans and freed by Belgian (or French/Senegalese) ground forces in a counterattack.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain 1978)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/305:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14142154 3. Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War Vol. 1 by Norman L R Frank, p 19
4.
http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/1_squadron.html#1205 5.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1940-1949_28.html 6.
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0543&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Jul-2019 01:35 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
04-Jul-2019 06:41 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
20-Mar-2020 11:51 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Source] |
21-Jun-2021 16:26 |
Zeta_Wolf_001 |
Updated [Narrative] |
21-Jun-2021 18:32 |
Zeta_Wolf_001 |
Updated [Narrative] |