Accident Supermarine Spitfire LFIX MK772,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 265413
 
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Date:Thursday 13 July 1944
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic SPIT model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Supermarine Spitfire LFIX
Owner/operator:442 (Caribou) Sqn RCAF
Registration: MK772
MSN: Y2-P
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:St Martin de Mailloc -   France
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:B3 Ste Croix sur Mer
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Shot down in a dogfight with Fw190s and Bf109s.
Pilot was J/4116 F/L Arnold Walter Roseland (RCAF)

Sources:

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2335437
http://aircrewremembered.com/roseland-arnold.html
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=4116&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact

Revision history:

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14-Jul-2021 00:42 tachel Added

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