ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 79704
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| Date: | Friday 18 April 1941 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 107 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | R3873 |
| MSN: | OM-O |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Missing - North Sea -
 Norway
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Leuchars, Fife |
| Confidence Rating: |  Little or no information is available |
Blenheim R3873/O: Took off at 10:35hrs for Anti shipping strike off Norway. 18/04/1941
The aircraft failed to return from operational flight off coast of Norway.
An SOS was received from this Blenheim, while beinng on the return trip, but nothing further was heard
Crew:
W/Cdr (34101) Arthur Montague Aubrey BIRCH (pilot) RAF - killed
P/O (87418) Leslie Barker HEWITSON (Obs.) RAFVR - killed
Sgt (942725) Harold Thomas Whitfield MONTGOMERY (WOp/AG) RAF - killed
Sources:
x.http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/index.php
1.Blenheim production list
2.ORB 107 Sqdn RAF
3.AIR81/5954
4. ORB RAF Leuchars
5.CWGC
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 10 July 1940 | R3606 | 107 Sqn RAF | 0 | Glisy, Amiens, Somme department, Picardy region. |  |
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