ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 186848
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| Date: | Thursday 11 December 1941 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | North American NA-64 |
| Owner/operator: | Burma Volunteer Air Force (BVAF) |
| Registration: | Z-31 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Tavoy airfield -
 Myanmar
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
On 11 December 1941, 27 Ki 27s from 77 Sentai strafed Tavoy airfield and claimed one 'middle-sized aircraft' set on fire, but ground fire hit four of the attackers. One of the Japanese pilots, Wt Off Kikuji Kishida, was badly wounded in the thigh and suffered a severe loss of blood from which he subsequently died.
The aircraft destroyed on the ground was the North American NA-64 Yale Z-31 of the Burma Volunteer Air Force, one of the two the type obtained from the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in November 1941. It had just landed, being flown by Flt Lt L W G Gill on a reconnaissance trip. There was no personnel casualties during the attack.
Sources:
"Bloody Shambles, volume one: the drift to war to the fall of Singapore", by Christopher Shores, Brian Cull & Yasuho Izawa. ISBN 0-948817-50-X
http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/aa-eastasia/burma/burma-bvaf-home.htm
http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/aa-eastasia/burma/burma-bvaf-aircraft.htm (wrong date)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawei_Airport
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=14.103611&lon=98.203611&z=8
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Apr-2016 18:14 | TB | Added |
| 01-Dec-2017 12:10 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Date, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Jan-2018 16:44 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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