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thanks ED

_2302_1 : Curtiss H-75A n° 162 "6" of GC I/4 2ème escadrille lost on 11/06/1940 with du Cne Bernard Barbier

_2304_4 : MS 406 n°711 of GC II/6, 3ème escadrille lost at Maubeuge on 11/05/1940 with sgc Jean Touret

edwest2

9th August 2022 23:47

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You're welcome Bertrand.

https://www.ebay.de/itm/125454070271...gAAOSwpsRi8PUO
https://www.ebay.de/itm/374206746259...IAAOSwzLJi8UAr
https://www.ebay.de/itm/265821518766...UAAOSwixli8hpi
https://www.ebay.de/itm/265821518047...4AAOSw-LBi8hok

marco392

10th August 2022 00:12

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2306_3 Hurricane V7800 of 33 Sqn, Flying Officer Raymond Douglas Dunscombe (RAFVR 87403) overshot the runway landing from a practice flight, and crash-landed into slit trench, Maleme, Greece. Abandoned

other view here
https://www.ebay.de/itm/265821517503?......AAOSw2Bdi8hn6

Stig Jarlevik

10th August 2022 12:07

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Gentlemen

2306/4 gives me a problem
To me this looks like L9398 lost in France May 1940

However I also have another crashed Blenheim IV coded RT-N (ie also 114 Sq)
which was reported as being L9398.
I cannot identify the complete s/n myself since the first letter is more or less obliterated
while the first digit may (or may not) be a 9.
The last three digits may be 398 but knowing how easily the digits 3 can turn into 9s and
a digit 9 to an 8 and vice versa I am simply curious if anyone has a clue what RT-N really
was?

What is certain is that the two photos does not depict the same aircraft.

Cheers
Stig

AndyMa

10th August 2022 16:51

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2306 - 2 is Battle K9251 of 218 Sqn, abandoned at Auberive on 15 May 40.
2306 - 4 will be Blenheim L8398 of 30 Sqn, flown to Maleme from Elefsis on 18 Apr 41 and abandoned in Crete. It was coded VT-B, although there does not seem to be much sign of that.
L9398 was indeed lost in France with 114 Sqn, being abandoned after being damaged in an air raid on Condé-Vraux on 11 May 40

Stig Jarlevik

10th August 2022 17:21

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Thanks for that Andy

Good answer!!
What did I tell you? Those darn 9s and 8s....;)
I really should have noticed the Mk I nose. Guess I was too concentrated on the digits.:o

Oh well, so it goes.
Cheers
Stig

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