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Date: | Friday 10 May 1940 |
Time: | 16:30 LT |
Type: | Fairey Battle Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 150 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | K9390 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Gosselies, Hainaut -
Belgium
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Ecury-sur-Coole, France |
Destination airport: | Ecury-sur-Coole, France |
Narrative:Fairey Battle Mk.1 K9390 (JN-I) of 150 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) when shot down over Luxemburg, 10 May 1940. Airborne 15:30, from Ecury-sur-Coole, France. Glycol and petrol tanks holed by ground-fire during low-level bombing of enemy column five miles west of Grevenmacher. Crash landed near Gosselies (Hainaut), North of Charleroi, Belgium. Crew: Taken as PoWs, briefly interned, but returned safely to Squadron on 13 May 40.
Crew of Battle K9390
Pilot: Sgt Raymond Arthur Cecil de Courcy RAF (580094) OK.
Sgt C.W.K. Booth RAF OK.
LAC Sgt Robert Henley Burrows (551689) RAF OK.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 77)
2. The Battle File by Sidney Shail (Air Britain 1997 p 135)
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/210:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14142035 3.
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?10784-Battle-K-9390 4.
http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/150_squadron.html#1005 5.
http://www.anciens-aerodromes.com/?p=33864 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Apr-2008 09:48 |
Bleiente |
Added |
27-Jun-2008 10:03 |
JINX |
Updated |
02-Jan-2012 12:33 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
25-Jan-2012 15:12 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source] |
30-Oct-2018 19:28 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
16-Jun-2019 00:51 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
26-Jun-2022 00:51 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |