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Date: | Tuesday 9 July 1940 |
Time: | 10:15 |
Type: | Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 21 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R3822 |
MSN: | YH-O |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | Missing - North Sea -
Norway
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Blenheim R3822/O: Took off at 08:00 hrs to bomb Stavanger in Norway. 09/07/1940
One of seven aircraft assigned to this task (five aircraft from 21 Squadron and two from 57 Squadron). Aircraft did not return from this mission. Lost in sea without trace. Claimed as having been shot down by an aircraft of JG 77. No survivors among the crew of three
Crew:
P/O (42344) John Alistair HEATH-BROWN (Pilot) RAF - killed (Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 26 March, 1940)
Sgt (581386) William Arthur HAMLYN (Obs.) RAF - killed
Sgt (638749) Emyr WILLIAMS (WOp/AG) RAF - killed
As no trace of the crew was ever found, they are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft R1000-R9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1980)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/1060:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502672 3.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1799842/heath-brown,-john-alastair/ 4.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1799231/hamlyn,-william-arthur/ 5.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1531640/williams,-emyr/ 6. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
23 July 1941 |
V6035 |
21 Sqn RAF |
3 |
English Channel near Oostende. |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Sep-2019 15:45 |
Nepa |
Added [Operator] |
10-Oct-2019 20:17 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
11-Oct-2019 21:38 |
juza7 |
Updated [Operator] |
03-Nov-2019 10:41 |
Anon. |
Updated [Location, Operator] |
09-Jul-2023 06:51 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [[Location, Operator]] |