They are from the same ORB.
The detachment to, and mission from, RAF Northolt was a 2TAF secret at the time (being in support of Operation Market Garden), and the 'double' aspect derives from this alone. One of the reports is from Northolt, and the other from Amiens Glisy. Are you reading 'PL896' too? My eyesight's not 20/20…
Jimmy Taylor's book 'One Flight Too Many'…
http://www.ypdbooks.com/biography/62...-YPD00583.html
(a great read despite a few factual errors) and other pamphlets of his, talk about the Northolt detachment and also of having to gather his bunkmate Brodby's things together when it was clear he was not coming back.
Can you suggest what source material would likely be more authoritative than the Squadron ORBs? On occasion these are pretty much contemporaneous notes, with other entries only hours old…
The CWGC entry further reinforces 20Sept1944 as the date of his crash…
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/ca...0JOHN%20ROBERT
Yet to hunt the cards myself. Need to find out whether they're at RAF Museum London.
We may have a third party in the form of the Studiegroep Luchtoorlog 1939-1945. Here you can download their 1944 Loss Register PDF…
http://www.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl...register-1944/
Here's their entry for Brodby…
T4204 | 20-sep-44 | 1000 | Hees (Dorpsstraat 158/160) | Spitfire PR.XI | PA893 | 16 Sqdn | F/O. J.R. Brodby B
Can they prove any of this, and if so what sources are they quoting?
There are other websites with similar entries. Again, where are they getting this?
I'm looking for a fruitful collaboration here. The ball's on your side of the net!
Anyone else can muck in too if they've a mind to…
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