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Re: 58 Sqn Whitley
I think some details have already been given, but:-
58 Squadron. Whitley Mk V. Serial Number: T4171; Squadron Code: GE-O.
Operation: Pilsen. 20th October / 21st October 1940
Airborne 19:00 20th Oct 40 from Linton on Ouse. Shot down at 06:15 by Hptm Karl Hulshoff of 1./NJG2 who was flying an Intruder mission over Northern England. The Whitley crashed in flames on the NW slopes of the Cleveland Hills at Bottom Head near Ingleby Greenhow, Yorkshire.
This was the first successful enemy Intruder sortie of the war, though the official accident card gives the cause as "out of petrol".
P/O E.H. Brown KIA; Sgt L.F.P. Adlam KIA; Sgt C.S.G. Green (DoW); Sgt R.E. Langfield Inj; Sgt M.C.Caryll de Tilkin KIA.
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