[Adam]

Hi Laurent

Thank you for the information. It is very helpful. As far as info for the German crew goes, it was Willi Gaul (B), who was flying in He 115 M2+[white]AH, with the pilot listed as "Osterkamp" who was the rescuing party. This is 1./106 and not the Seenotdienst and is confirmed by his FB. The flight left Brest at 05:40 and returned at 12:44 and his notes from his FB say that they "Landed on Atlantic to pick up 5 English survivors (1 general)".

I had presumed the loss location was the Bay of Biscay but the note about a |general| tweaked my interest. Your info raises certain other questions - most notably about the ditching of X/8274. I've since found a post by Tim. O. on the other board about Blenheim losses in August 1940 that include Gaul's name and I have PM\d him and I hope he answers, but in the mean time lets hope we can put more pieces together on this one

regards

Adam