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Re: 56 Squadron Claim 18 May 1940
It seems that you didn't check my book very well, Andy.
235 Squadron, Bircham Newton Shipping protection Ostend
Blenheim IV L9395. Shot down by S/Lt Jacquemet, Adj Marchais, and Sgt Dietrich of GC II/8 and crashed in the sea off Nieuport 7.10 p.m. P/O C. S. Robinson, Sgt D. V. Moseley, and LAC A. E. Waddington missing. Aircraft lost.
Yet another tragic accident, despite the efforts of Adj Henri Mir of GC II/8 who recognised the aircraft as a Blenheim and tried to alert attacking pilots who took it for an He111. Some accounts suggest that it was also attacked by an RAF Hurricane but no corresponding claim has been traced.
Source: The Battle of France Then & Now (p313)
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