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Re: Hurricane P2701
Hi Geoff,
To start, I buy your story that the VY-R p2??1 (right side picture) and the P2701 code I? (left side picture) are the same aircraft. Mainly determined by the identical fence damage. Very creative thinking to interpret the left side coding as an unfinished one, but I think you're right. Shows again how complex it all is.
That would then definitely make it a No.85 Sqn aircraft. My apologies for having doubted that.
It looks like like P2701 was the replacement VY-R of the May 11 VY-R loss.
As to the date it then probably remains the May 18 loss of F/O Allen. But the 12 Days in May story where F/L Gleed of 87 Sqn describes Allen as crashing into a building can then not be correct. If it is this loss the location is around Le cateau. But what happened to Allen after his landing, making him "missing" then remains a mistery.
Regards, Pieter
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