ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 225434
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| Date: | Wednesday 29 October 1941 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia |
| Owner/operator: | 53 OTU RAF |
| Registration: | P9459 |
| MSN: | 622 |
| 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 9-4-40; delivered to RAF at 9 MU RAF Cosford 11-4-40. Issued to 603 Squadron as 'XT-N' 6-5-40; damaged by Bf-109 in combat and force-landed at Bossingham, near Deal, Kent 29-8-40. Pilot, Flight Lt Rushmer injured. To Cunliffe-Owen for repairs. To 53 OTU 3-9-41 after repairs
Written off (destroyed) when the aircraft was in collision with Spitfire (X4823) 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: Pilot Officer Joseph Arthur Jodoin RCAF, Service Number J/6375, aged 21 - Killed. Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. Collided with Pilot Louis Raymond Brunette, Service Number R/67937, Aged 19 - Killed. Also commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
R.I.P.
Sources:
1. Halley, J J, 1979, Air Britain, Royal Air force Aircraft P1000-P9999
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p009.html
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1802099/jodoin,-joseph-arthur/
4. http://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/Rushmer.htm
5. https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/515898/details/supermarine-spitfire-i-x4823
6. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/29625:62274
6. http://ciapoldiescorner.blogspot.com/2009/10/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-May-2019 22:39 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 25-May-2019 11:03 | stehlik49 | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location] |
| 10-May-2021 21:45 | angels one five | Updated [Nature, Narrative] |
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