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Date: | Monday 20 May 1940 |
Time: | 19:00 LT |
Type: | Avro Anson Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 48 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | K8772 |
MSN: | 970 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Waddensee, 35 km SW of Texel, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Detling, Maidstone, Kent |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Avro Anson Mk.I K8772 (OY-G) 48 Squadron, RAF
Operation: Dutch Patrol
Crew:
Flight Lt [Pilot] Stephen Dodds (RAF 37086), aged 24, Mentioned in Dispatches.
Pilot Officer Bryan Seymour Booth (RAF 42045) aged 27
Leading Aircraftman Arthur Herbert Gumbleton (RAF 538552) aged 24
Leading Aircraftman Norman E. Jacobs, (RAF 526265) aged 22
Took off 17:10 hrs from RAF Detling, Maidstone, Kent, in company with two other Ansons to attack nine German Motor Torpedo Boats (MTB's) in position CPOX 2706. At 19.00 hrs 35 km SW of Texel, they sighted eight or nine MTB's in convoy and attacked. Flight Lt Dodds led the attack and was hit by flak from an E-boat in the starboard wing and was forced to ditch into the Wadeensee
All crew members were killed. As no trace of the aircraft or the crew was ever found, they are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976)
2. National Archives (PRO Krew) File AIR 81/
3. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air Britain, 1988 p 44)
4.
http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/48_squadron.html#losses 5.
http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/lw/seeflieger-verluste.htm 6.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/232299/dodds,-stephen/ 7.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1530088/booth,-bryan-seymour/ 8.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1798992/gumbleton,-arthur-herbert/ 9.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1801031/jacobs,-norman-edward/ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
15-Apr-2012 11:56 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
13-Aug-2012 14:11 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
22-Aug-2013 18:50 |
JINX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative] |
10-Jul-2015 18:59 |
DG333 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Narrative] |
19-Oct-2017 13:52 |
A.J. Scholten |
Updated [Cn, Narrative] |
24-Jul-2019 19:44 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
15-Jun-2022 06:30 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |