ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 90936
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| Date: | Monday 7 July 1941 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia |
| Owner/operator: | 53 OTU RAF |
| Registration: | X4607 |
| MSN: | 1215 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | A field nr Quakers Yard, nr Treharris, Glamorgan, Wales -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Llandow, Glamorgan |
| RAF Llandow |
Collided with Spitfire X4024 during formation flying practice over Mount Pleasant, Treharris, Merthyr Vale, Glamorgan, killing the pilot of X4024, and the pilot of X4607. Three civilians, Alice Cox (aged 33) and her two daughters, Doreen (aged 3) and Phyllis (aged 14), were also killed, on the ground, when Spitfire X4024 crashed into a private house at No.1 South View, Mount Pleasant.
X4607 crashed and was destroyed by fire.
SOC 15/7/41.
Pilot: Sergeant Gerald Fenwick MANUEL, RCAF killed (Service Number R/69888). Buried at Merthyr Tydfil (Ffrwd) Cemetery, Penderyn Row A.1. Uncons. Grave 3.
Sources:
1. Fallen Flyers: Tragedy in the Skies Over Wartime Gower (Wartime Record) Bryngold Books Ltd; First edition (1 May 2005) by Steven H. Jones
2. http://www.ggat.org.uk/timeline/pdf/Military%20Aircraft%20Crash%20Sites%20in%20Southeast%20Wales.pdf
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2965299/goldberg,-louis/
4. http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/02086.php
5. http://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/X4607
6. https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2717569
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merthyr_Vale#History
8. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/4533513.stm
9. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147780339/gerald-fenwick-manuel
10. https://canadianfallen.ca/70419/MANUEL
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-May-2013 22:33 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Jul-2015 20:19 | Angel dick one | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 01-May-2019 20:40 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Apr-2021 01:18 | angels one five | Updated [Phase, Narrative] |
| 03-Sep-2021 21:17 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Narrative] |
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