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Date: | Tuesday 29 January 1946 |
Time: | 14:30 LT |
Type: | Hawker Tempest Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 56 OTU RAF |
Registration: | EJ859 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Felkington Farm, Felkington, Grievestead Moor, Duddo, Northumberland -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Millfield, Northumberland |
Destination airport: | RAF Millfield, Northumberland |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Hawker Tempest EJ859 was a Mark V variant manufactured by Hawkers Langley under contract 1876 with a Sabre IIa engine number 505852 installed. The aircraft never served with a front-line unit and arrived new from 20 Maintenance Unit RAF Aston Down on 14/02/45 at 56 OTU (Operational Training Unit), RAF Millfield in Northumberland. Nothing else is listed for this aircraft until the crash on 29/01/46 where it was subsequently listed as a category E and struck off charge.
At around 14:00 hrs on 29/01/46 F/Lt Vincent Parker took off from RAF Millfield on a “Camera Exercise”. At approximately 14:30 at 6,000 feet, commencing a slow roll, Flight Lieutenant Parker whilst inverted, dropped the nose of his aircraft and descended in a slow spin. At approximately 100 feet, the aircraft was partially recovered, but the aircraft crashed through a tree before impacting with the ground at Felkington Farm, Felkington, Grievestead Moor, Duddo, Northumberland.
Pilot:
Flt/Lt (42356) Vincent "Bushy" PARKER, RAFVR (pilot, aged 27) - killed in service 29-1-46, buried at Stonefall Cemetery, Harrogate, Yorkshire
In a cruel twist of irony, Flt/Lt Parker was killed after having survived as a prisoner of war since 16th August 1940. He remained, despite multiple escape attempts, in a succession of German POW camps (including the infamous Colditz Castle; he was Court Martialled in Oflag IV C for stealing German food) until its liberation at the end of hostilities (8th May 1945). Returning to England in June 1945, his post-war, peacetime life (seven months) had been shorter than his life in captivity (five years).
Duddo is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.27. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.49
3. The Colditz Conjurer: The amazing true story of Vincent 'Bush' Parker, Battle of Britain pilot and prisoner of war magician by James Green
4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Parker#Death 5.
http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/12832.php 6. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2624000/parker,-vincent/ 7.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13053971/vincent-parker 7.
https://www.nelsam.org.uk/NEAR/Losses/Losses-PostWWII.htm 9.
https://aviationtrails.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/raf-milfield-arguably-one-of-britains-most-significant-airfields/ 10.
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/awards/details.php?qname=PARKER&qnum=42356 11. 56 OTU ORB (Operations Record Book) for the period 1-1-1939 to 28-2-1946: National Archives (PRO Kew) file AIR 29/683/1 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7161029 12. "RAF Write-offs 1946": Air Britain Aeromilitaria 1979 p.103:
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf 13.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/posts/1339325286474373/ 14.
http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/did-not-seem-fair-what-do-you-think.19715/ 15.
https://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/5628/Vincent-bushy-parker-park-factsheet.pdf 16.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duddo Revision history:
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