ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 225424
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| Date: | Wednesday 29 October 1941 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia |
| Owner/operator: | 53 OTU RAF |
| Registration: | X4823 |
| MSN: | 1320 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Sea 3 miles off Nash Point, Porthcawl, Glamorgan, Wales -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Llandow, Glamorgan |
First Flown 26-11-40: Delivered to the RAF at 8 MU Little Rissington 27-11-40. Issued to 145 Squadron 14-2-41; this Spitfire was a named "presentation" aircraft, paid for by Woolworth's Stores, with the purchase of £5,000-worth of War Bonds. Woolworth's named the Spitfire "NIX OVER SIX SECUNDUS" which is cod-latin for "Nothing Over Six Pence" (the advertising slogan for Woolworth's at the time!)
To 118 Squadron 3-3-41, to 66 Squadron 9-4-41, to 501 Squadron 26-4-41, and finally to 53 OTU 25-5-41.
Written off (destroyed) when the aircraft was in collision with Spitfire (P9459) and crashed into the sea 3 miles off Nash Point, Porthcawl, Glamorgan on 29-10-41. Pilot killed; no trace of the aircraft or the pilot was ever found.
Pilot: Sergeant Louis Raymond Brunette, RCAF, Service Number R/67937, aged 19. Killed. He was a US National, from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
R.I.P.
Sources:
1. Royal Air force Aircraft X1000 - X9999, Z1000 - Z9999, p 17.
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p016.html
3. https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/515898/details/supermarine-spitfire-i-x4823
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1530704/brunette,-louis-raymond/
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/08107.php
6. http://ciapoldiescorner.blogspot.com/2009/10/
7. https://fyldebbmfund.wordpress.com/gifts-of-war-presentation-spitfires/
8. http://www.ggat.org.uk/timeline/pdf/Military%20Aircraft%20Crash%20Sites%20in%20Southeast%20Wales.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-May-2019 19:23 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 24-May-2019 19:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 25-May-2019 11:02 | stehlik49 | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location] |
| 10-May-2021 21:41 | angels one five | Updated [Nature, Narrative] |
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