Date:	Saturday 14 September 1940
Time:	c.
Type:	Saunders Roe A.27 London II
Owner/operator:	202 Sqn RAF
Registration:	K9682
MSN:	-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Atlantic Ocean 40 miles off Casablanca, Morocco, North Africa, -   Atlantic Ocean
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Gibraltar
Destination airport:	-

Narrative:
202 Sqn. RAF Saunders Roe London K9682, operating out of Gibraltar on a reconnaissance/anti-submarine patrol, was shot down by Vichy French Curtiss H-75As of GC II/5, 40 miles off Casablanca, Morocco, North Africa. Pilots, Edwin Charles Minchinton and Flight Lieutenant B McCallum were lost with the aircraft. Wireless Operator, Leading Aircraftsman, Richard Marshall-Hardy and the other two crew members were picked up by a Vichy French Submarine and became prisoners of war.

No. 202 Squadron (RAF) during the Second World War (historyofwar.org)
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945: Volume Three: Tunisia and ... - Christopher Shores, Giovanni Massimello, Russell Guest, Frank Olynyk, Winfried Bock - Google Books
Saro London K9682[RAFCommands Archive]
F/Lt Bruce MacCallum[RAFCommands Archive]
No. 202 Squadron Royal Air Force in the Second World War 1939-1945 - The Wartime Memories Project -

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