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Date: | Friday 24 May 1940 |
Time: | c. |
Type: | Fairey Swordfish Mk 1 |
Owner/operator: | 812 Sqn FAA RN |
Registration: | K8380 |
MSN: | F2562 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Calais to Gravelines road, -
France
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | ??? |
Destination airport: | - |
Narrative:Fairey Swordfish Mk 1 K8380 G3-R was shot down on the 24th May 1940 while bombing a German tank column on the 17 mile section of the Calais to Gravelines road in France. Pilot, Lieutenant, Kenneth Percy Gurr and Observer, Lieutenant, Ronald Carpmael were killed.
812 Squadron, FAA Royal Navy Swordfish aircraft were transferred, May 1940, from HMS Glorious to the RAF Coastal Command to operate from shore based airfields, to take part in support operations of the Dunkirk evacuation.
Sources:
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm WW2 Alphabetical List (aircrewremembered.com)
812 Naval Air Squadron - Wikipedia
Dunkirk evacuation May 1940 (naval-history.net)
812hist (hms-vengeance.co.uk)
World War 2 - FAA No. 812 Squadron, May/June 1940 (epibreren.com)
Swordfish I K8380 [Royal Air Force Aircraft Serial and Image Database] RAFCommands.com
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Nov-2020 17:33 |
Peter Clarke |
Added |
30-Nov-2020 21:07 |
Heil |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
08-Jan-2021 17:53 |
Peter Clarke |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Narrative] |