ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 89763
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| Date: | Thursday 28 May 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Westland Lysander Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 161 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | V9595 |
| MSN: | MA-D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | a field near the hamlet of le Grand Malleray, some twenty kilometres n -
 France
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Tangmere |
The pilot of the put the aircraft down in a field near the hamlet of le Grand Malleray, some twenty kilometres north of Chateauroux, in Unoccupied France. When the time came to take off John Mott found that the Lysander had stuck fast in boggy
ground, and was unable to leave. All attempts to destroy the aircraft by fire failed, and what was left of it was removed by the Germans and exhibited `in their museum of captured enemy equipment at Nanterre, near Paris, until they destroyed the museum during their retreat, in the summer of 1944.
Pilot: P/O A.J. Mott - arrested by Vichy police then escaped and returned to UK
Passenger (from UK): MI9 agent W/T operator Alex Nitelet - ex Aér.Mil Belge - network PAT - escaped
Sources:
http://www.plan-sussex-1944.net/anglais/pdf/infiltrations_into_france.pdf
"We Landed by Moonlight" - Hugh Verity
Missions-des-lysander-de-la-raf-dans-le-berry-t4373.htm
Clutton-Brock: RAF Evaders
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 5 August 1944 | V9748 | 161 Sqn RAF | 2 | La Patouillais, Messac, Ille-et-Vilaine département | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 31-Jan-2011 15:18 | ThW | Added |
| 01-Feb-2011 02:35 | penguin832 | Updated [Registration, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Feb-2012 00:45 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Feb-2012 00:47 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source] |
| 30-Dec-2017 17:15 | Red Dragon | Updated [Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 06-Feb-2022 09:20 | Anon. | Updated [Departure airport] |
| 20-Nov-2022 17:37 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
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