Accident Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb P8339,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52526
 
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Date:Monday 21 September 1942
Time:14:52
Type:Silhouette image of generic SPIT model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb
Owner/operator:335th FSqn /4th FGp USAAF
Registration: P8339
MSN: WD-?
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:North Sea, near Haamstede, Zeeland -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Bushey Hall
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Damaged by flak attacking flak ship and crashed in sea off Haamstede.

Call Sign: WD-
Pilot: 2nd Lt. J.T. Slater O-885133 USAAF Margraten Walls of the Missing


Sources:

http://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/item2.php?SGLO=T1852
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/335th_Fighter_Squadron#cite_ref-Anderson_5-0

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
19-Jan-2012 02:59 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Narrative]
21-Jan-2012 02:39 Nepa Updated [Operator, Departure airport]
19-Sep-2017 14:15 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
19-Sep-2017 14:46 TigerTimon Updated [Departure airport, Source]
17-Mar-2019 19:40 Nepa Updated [Operator, Operator]
23-Dec-2019 15:55 Nepa Updated [Operator, Operator]
23-Mar-2020 18:29 DG333 Updated [Operator, Operator]
11-Jul-2020 15:09 TigerTimon Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source]
13-Jun-2022 14:59 Ron Averes Updated [Location]

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