ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 87246
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| Date: | Friday 31 May 1940 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 609 (West Riding) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | N3202 |
| MSN: | 444 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | English Channel, near Dunkerque, Pas de Calais, Hauts de France -
 France
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Northolt, South Ruislip, Middlesex |
N3202: Spitfire Mk Ia (c/no. 444), First Flown 30-11-39. Delivered to the RAF at 8 MU RAF Little Rissington 2-12-39. Issued to 609 (West Riding) Squadron 16-4-40 as "PR-G". Written off (presumed destroyed) when Failed To Return from combat operation over Dunkirk 31-5-40. Pilot killed
According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/704): "Spitfire N3202 failed to return from air operations over Dunkirk, France, 31 May 1940. Flight Lieutenant D Persse-Joynt: missing presumed dead".
On patrol duty over Dunkirk he was seen to dive in his Spitfire to attack a He 111. The Spitfire is presumed to have crashed at sea. According to a biography of the pilot on the BBC History website (see link #7): "On 31 May 1940, Dudley Joynt was on patrol duty in his Spitfire over Dunkirk. He did not return from his mission,. He was reported missing, presumed dead. On that day (the peak of the evacuation) over 68,000 soldiers were evacuated, while 28 RAF planes and 38 German aircraft were lost.
Joynt’s obituary from the 1941 Belvederian closes with the words:
On patrol duty over Dunkirk on the last day of May last year he was seen to dive in his Spitfire to attack a German bomber. He has not returned, nor has any news been received of him since then, so he must be presumed killed in action. To his sorrowing family we extend our deepest sympathy.
Dudley Persse Joynt was 30 at the time of his disappearance. He has no grave, but is commemorated at Panel 4 of the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey."
Flight Lieutenant Dudley Persse Joynt, RAF (AAF) 90322 (Ireland), age 30, posted 31/05/1940, as missing presumed dead.
R.I.P.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1977 p 18)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/704: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502481
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1802433/joynt,-dudley-persse/
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p003.html
5. http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=5921
6. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/609_squadron.html#3105
7. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/26/a3954026.shtml
8. http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/raf-losses-may-1940-an-update.16940/page-16#post-202732.
9. https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/profile/21192-spitfire609/content/&type=forums_topic_post
10. https://www.rauxaf.net/page139.html
11. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15256557/dudley-persse-joynt
12. http://www.cieldegloire.com/sq_raf_609.php
13. https://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/big-read-the-irish-of-dunkirk-455901.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Jan-2011 18:04 | angels one five | Added |
| 25-Dec-2011 03:55 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative] |
| 04-Nov-2012 16:37 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 23-Sep-2013 12:38 | angels one five | Updated [Operator] |
| 16-Oct-2013 01:11 | JINX | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 17-Dec-2013 17:44 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Nature] |
| 29-May-2014 00:57 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Nature] |
| 05-Apr-2015 08:10 | Apen | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location] |
| 23-Jan-2016 15:27 | Apen | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Narrative] |
| 27-Apr-2017 14:20 | Red Dragon | Updated [Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Feb-2018 17:43 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 01-Sep-2019 20:59 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Sep-2019 21:17 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Sep-2019 13:29 | stehlík49 | Updated [Operator] |
| 02-Sep-2019 16:07 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Registration] |
| 02-Sep-2019 16:08 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date] |
| 06-Sep-2019 20:31 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Country] |
| 19-Sep-2019 11:07 | angels one five | Updated [Phase, Nature, Narrative] |
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