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Date: | Sunday 29 March 1942 |
Time: | 12:30 |
Type: | Boulton Paul Defiant Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 151 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | AA384 |
MSN: | 735 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1 mile north of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Defiant AA384: Written off (destroyed) 29 March 1942 when crashed and caught fire at 12:30 hrs, after the pilot stalled the aircraft at low altitude in a steep turn during a session of unauthorized low flying in a flight training session. Aircraft came down one mile north of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. Both crew killed.
Crew of Defiant AA384:
P/O (115.127) Herbert Wyndham HART (Pilot) RAFVR : killed
Sgt (917338) Aldridge James SNOOK (AG) RAFVR : killed
Both crew were buried at All Saints Churchyard, Wittering, Northamptonshire.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft AA100-AZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain (2nd Edition) 2000 p.6)
2. 151 Squadron ORB for March 1942: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR27/1020/6:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8389545 3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR81/13037:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17083787 4. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2949717/herbert-wyndham-hart/ 5. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2949735/aldridge-james-snook/ 6.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?p=90972 7.
https://www.bcar.org.uk/new1942-incident-logs#mar 8.
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=AA384 9.
https://www.chwarmemorial.org.uk/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=96&TableName=ta_ww2rollofhonour&BrowseID=1180 10. Grave marker of Sgt A J Snook:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/188806011@N04/52222451964/ 11.
http://www.rafweb.org/Members%20Pages/Casualties/1940s/1942/Casualties_1942_03-9.htm 12.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._151_Squadron_RAF#World_War_II 13.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Wittering#Second_World_War 14.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamford,_Lincolnshire Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Feb-2008 12:59 |
JINX |
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07-Sep-2011 15:18 |
angels one five |
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04-Feb-2012 09:02 |
Nepa |
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13-Sep-2013 08:21 |
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20-Sep-2014 08:00 |
Faun |
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04-Oct-2018 13:05 |
Nepa |
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06-Sep-2020 07:37 |
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22-Mar-2022 15:07 |
TigerTimon |
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