ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 89148
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Date: | Sunday 12 May 1940 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Hawker Hurricane Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 607 (County of Durham) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | P2572 |
MSN: | AF-B |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Lens-Saint-Servais, Geer, Liège -
Belgium
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Vitry-en-Artois, France |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 P2572 ("AF-B") of 607 (County of Durham) Squadron, RAF. Written off (destroyed in combat operations) over Lens-Saint-Servais, Belgium; shot down in combat with He111. Pilot: W. E. Gore, RAF (Service Number 9279) bailed out, and was captured injured - taken as a POW
Sources:
1.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1940-1949_28.html 2.
https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hurricane/111433-4151553.html 3.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ww2images/13114948524/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
1 September 1940 |
N2586 |
607 (County of Durham) Sqn RAF |
0 |
4 miles S of Usworth near the Usworth D/F station, County Durham |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Jan-2011 13:58 |
ThW |
Added |
04-Jan-2012 12:22 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
10-Jan-2012 15:07 |
Nepa |
Updated [Registration, Operator] |
04-Aug-2013 07:09 |
JINX |
Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
01-May-2015 14:20 |
Quentin |
Updated [Operator] |
22-Apr-2019 20:18 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Source, Narrative] |
22-Apr-2019 20:20 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
13-Nov-2022 20:36 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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