Airspeed Oxford HM420 or NM420
 

Has anybody details on the loss of these aircraft please. I have come across a photo of a crashed Oxford in a field near some hangars. The code is either HM or NM ( hard to tell from the photo ) 420 , unfortunately both codes were used on Oxfords. May have been 14 P AFU at either Ossington or Gamston. A/C also has 45 painted on the side.

Also as a side bar to this , which photo sites are people now using for 3rd party hosting since Photobucket went a bit loopy. I'll post pic when I get a new photo hosting site.

Re: Airspeed Oxford HM420 or NM420
 

Noggin

From Air Britain's 'The Oxford, Consul and Envoy File', page 183:

NM420 16 PFTS [45] 26.1.44 - engine cut, undershot landing at Newton and hit building, 16.3.45

Regards

Simon

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Re: Airspeed Oxford HM420 or NM420
 

Thank you. Any casulties listed , the crew compartment is all but gone.

Re: Airspeed Oxford HM420 or NM420
 

No, that was all. No further details.

Regards

Simon

Re: Airspeed Oxford HM420 or NM420
 

Noggin

A couple of possible connections:

Two Polish airmen who were killed that day had their deaths registered at Bingham, which would be right for R.A.F. Newton:

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/ca...,%20MIECZYSLAW

See also: http://listakrzystka.pl/en/?p=143720

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/ca...I,%20STANISLAW

See also: http://listakrzystka.pl/en/?p=251140

Regards

Simon

Re: Airspeed Oxford HM420 or NM420
 

Thanks again , checked the CWGC and got Cpt Stanislaw Sadowski
Cpl Waclaw Dabrowski
Lt Mieczyslaw Krwawicz died and buried at Newark that day , can count Dabrowski out as he was registered at Scunthorpe.

Re: Airspeed Oxford HM420 or NM420
 

Hello,
NM420,
F/Lt(Pilot U/T) Piotrowski, Waclaw.
F/Lt(Instr ) Sadowski, Stanislaw, KW.
W/O(WoP) Ballard J. 1382845.

Alex

Re: Airspeed Oxford HM420 or NM420
 

Thank you. Wonder if Krwawicz was killed on the ground then as you say the A/C hit a building

Re: Airspeed Oxford HM420 or NM420
 

Hello,
Polanin, Karol Jan P/O.
13 OTU
Mosquito NFII - DZ291.

Dabrowski Waclaw AC2c Pilot(u/t),
and
Krwawicz Mieczyslaw F/Lt
Both in
Harvard IIb FX381 - 16 OTU

FX381 was in collision with FT344.

FT344 coded "49"
FX381 coded "10".

RAF........USAAF.....CONST/No
FT344- 43-13085 - 14A- 1384
FX381- 43-34798 - 14A-1684

Alex

Re: Airspeed Oxford HM420 or NM420
 

Thank you Alex , just checked the GRO again Krwawicz died in the second quater of 1945. Survived the Harvard crash and must have been killed in the Newton area later.