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Originally Posted by B.F.M. Droog
Who can enlighten me with more information on the other crew members of this bomber, fate of the respective crew members, crash location, operation, cause of crash?:
Type: Amiot 354
Serial number: 34
Unit: GB I/34
Operation: ?
Lost: 14/05/1940
Colonel François
Crashed in the Maastricht area.
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Bart |
gpourteau@yahoo.fr
Good morning;
Some information about Jean Dagnaux:
He was shot downn by german Flak during the night of 17/18 May 1940, between Guise and Vervins, town located in the north east of France. The Amiot crashed just before the church of a little village whose name is "la Vallée au Bled". There was a crew of 4 men, two dies an two escaped using their parachute.
Pilot : Frank Fremond (escaped)
Radio : Raymond Regnault (escaped)
Bomber : Maurice Lavolley (died)
Dagnaux, who took the place of the upper gunner before starting, died too with the planes's crashed.
The Amiot started from Nangis, a the east of Paris, in order to have a look of the german colunns near Chimay in Belgium, and eventually to drop bombs.
best regards