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Date: | Saturday 5 August 1944 |
Time: | 00:30 |
Type: | Westland Lysander Mk IIIa |
Owner/operator: | 161 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | V9748 |
MSN: | MA-D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | La Patouillais, Messac, Ille-et-Vilaine département -
France
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Tempsford |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation Pirogue - takeoff at 21:32 hrs.
Was apparently destroyed in error by an Mosquito 410 Sqn RCAF - pilot F/Lt W.G. Dinsdale
(replace Hs 126). Aircraft exploded and crashed in flames (sept cents/huit cents mètres de la ferme de la Patouillai)s
Crew:
F/O (127.192) John Perry Alcock (pilot) RAFVR - killed; Lucien Guermereau (passenger - "Lucien Pradier" - Ecarlate Network) - killed
web-site rafweb.org/Sqn 161-165.htm shows that the Squadron code for the Lysander flight of 161 Squadron changed from MA to JR in April 1944
Sources:
missions-des-lysander-de-la-raf-dans-le-berry-t4373.htm
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.absa39-45.com/5%20aout%2044/biographie_alcock_anglais.html]
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=539 Bing Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
28 May 1942 |
V9595 |
161 Sqn RAF |
0 |
a field near the hamlet of le Grand Malleray, some twenty kilometres n |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Nov-2009 12:17 |
NePa |
Added |
25-Dec-2009 04:53 |
NePa |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
31-Jan-2011 15:25 |
ThW |
Updated [Registration, Source, Narrative] |
13-Feb-2011 08:58 |
ThW |
Updated [Registration, Location, Source, Narrative] |
16-Feb-2012 02:01 |
Nepa |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
05-Mar-2021 16:42 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
05-Mar-2021 16:43 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Cn] |