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Old 22nd September 2011, 06:26
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Re: No.404 Sqdn., RCAF vs a "Weather Willie" Ju-88

Hi
Google is always worth a try.

18 Dec 1941 Wekusta 1 Ju 88 Crashed into the sea east of the Shetland whilst on a “Zenit” flight. Distress signal sent at 11am

from
http://www.wiki.luftwaffedata.co.uk/...Wekusta/Lfl._1


On 18 December, the CO, along with F/S Sims as Navigator and P/O Matthews as the WAG in Blenheim 'T' Z5753, took off to intercept the regular German weather monitoring aircraft, a Junkers 88 (Ju.88). The resulting intercept was duly written up in the squadron's scrapbook:

".took off on interception of Weather Willie. After about 15 minutes vectoring, the signal came through 'Jerry at 3 o'clock' Woody carefully counted 1,2,3 from the head of the aircraft and altered course accordingly. A few seconds afterwards, the Ju.88 was seen by Simmo low down on the drink, which information was conveyed to Woody without delay, the latter pulled everything and dived into a ¾ beam attack, getting in a long burst which upset the Ju and caused him to turn to starboard, giving Woody another chance for a tail attack with good results."

The crew returned to Sumburgh and it was not until the next day that they were told officially that the Ju.88 had in fact been shot down. It was the squadron's first 'kill'.

from
http://www.404squadron.com/nov1941.html

maybe others have some data ?

cheers
Jerry
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