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Re: French airman killed 16 May 1940
GAO 503 Potez 63.11 (375). Hit by flak and starboard engine set alight during reconnaissance sortie over enemy armoured columns. Crashed and burned out near the goods station at Beert-Bellingen, between Soignies and Braine-le-Comte 3.20 p.m. S/Lt. A. Mann dropped from aircraft at low level and seriously injured, taken to a clinic in Halle where died next day. Adjt. Nourry baled out over Hennuyères but shot at by allied troops and badly wounded, admitted to hospital in Binche. Adjt. Gourdon baled out landing unhurt. Aircraft a write-off.
(The Battle of France Then & Now : After The Battle 2007)
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