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Re: help with japanese pilots claims
Hello,
Re: Kuroe's Mosquito claim on 2 November, 1943. The following loss is known:
2 November 1943
No.684 Sqn, RAF.
Mosquito PR.II DZ697 "J"
Took off Chittagong 0900 on a PR sortie over the Rangoon area. There is some dispute whether the loss was caused by Kuroe, or to catastrophic structural failure, probably both. The two airmen were thrown out as the aircraft broke up and were buried where they fell, in adjacent paddy fields, half-a-mile south of Kyaungyi village, Burma. After hostilities the two airmen were reinterred at Taukkyan War Cemetery,
113753 F/O (Pilot) Ernest Angus FIELDING RAFVR +
NZ40744 F/O (Nav.) Robert Alfred TURTON MiD RNZAF +
NB. The CWGC register entries record the crew as members of 681 Sqn, RAF, also based at Dum Dum. However, that unit's twin-engine aircraft and their crews were withdrawn at the end of October and used to form 684 Sqn. Whether the airmen were on temporary attachment or permanently posted to the new unit is unknown. Turton's posting to 681 Sqn had preceded his death by only 11 days.
See:
For Your Tomorrow:A Record of New Zealanders who have Died while serving with the RNZAF and Allied Air Services since 1915. Volume Two: Fates 1943-1998.
Martyn,Errol.
Christchurch:Volplane Press,1999.
p.157.
Col.
Last edited by Col Bruggy; 11th April 2014 at 10:12.
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