|
Re: Need loction of PRU pilot loss & capture on 16 August 1940
Mark,
Martin Gleeson, who has given a tremendous amount of help to Peter Cornwell on the EoE British loss lists for 1939-40, informs me that he has digitized copy of the PRU ORB for 1940 (AIR 29/413). That doesn't further advance what we already know.
Short of taking another look at the PoW Questionnaire for P.O. Alexander Corbett, and perhaps at the file you mentioned, I'm not sure where we can go from here. I was hoping that Corbett's story might already have been told in the existing post-war literature, but this appears not to be the case.
Perhaps some researcher tracked Corbett down post-war and has an account of his experiences? Is he maybe even still alive?
Anybody else got any ideas on where to go with this? We're going to a huge amount of effort and expense to try and take the story of the 39-40 airwar as far as we can take it, especially casualty information, and this one just kind of disappears into a black hole. We're not even sure of the exact date of his loss.
Regards,
Larry Hickey
EoE Project Coordinator
|