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Date: | Monday 17 February 1941 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 307 (Lwowskich Puchaczy) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N3314 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Wrea Green, Lytham, 20 km east of RAF Squires Gate, Lancashire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Squires Gate, Blackpool, Lancashire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Boulton Paul Defiant N3314: Written off (destroyed) in an aircraft accident, 17 February 1941.
On 17 February 1941, 307 (Lwowskich Puchaczy) Squadron RAF reported in its ORB that weather conditions were favourable during the day, and flying training continued from RAF Squires Gate, for a total of 13.55 flying hours during the day. Sgt. Bochenski (pilot) and Sgt. Frackiewicz (gunner) were both killed when their Defiant Mk.I N3314 crashed near Wrea Green, Lytham, 20 km east of RAF Squires Gate, Blackpool, Lancashire, when executing low altitude aerobatics.
Crew:
Sgt (Plutonowy) Kazimierz BOCHENSKI (P/793643) Polish Air Force, pilot aged 41 - killed on active service 17 February 1941
Sgt (Kapral) Kazimierz FRACKIEWICZ (P/780039) Polish Air Force, Air Gunner, aged 24 - killed on active service 17 February 1941
Both crew were buried at Layton Cemetery, Blackpool, Lancashire. Wrea Green is a village in the Fylde borough of Lancashire, England. It lies about 2 miles west of Kirkham. Along with the village of Ribby, it forms the civil parish Ribby-with-Wrea.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1977 p.20)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR81/5170:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16689268 3. 307 (Lwowskich Puchaczy) Squadron RAF ORB for February 1941: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/1975/6:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8400434 4. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7503251/kazimierz-bochenski/ 5. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7503425/kazimierz-frackiewicz/ 6.
http://www.polishsquadronsremembered.com/307//307_losses.html 7.
http://www.polishsquadronsremembered.com/307//307airmen.html 8.
http://orb.polishaf.pl/307sqn/1941-8/1941-02-no-307-squadron-f540 9.
https://www.mysliwcy.pl/dead_b.htm 10.
https://forum.valka.cz/topic/view/38150 11.
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?12485-Defiant-N3314-307-Sqn-17-Feruary-1941 12.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrea_Green Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Jul-2017 08:57 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
Added |
03-Sep-2017 15:53 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
24-Mar-2022 22:08 |
Nepa |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator] |