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Re: Upside Down Hurricane
Humm, no sign of the Hurricane in this list? I think the caption on the picture was wrong. No surprise.
BTW, thanks for the link: It curiously omits one other Channel Island A/C casualty:
an elderly P47C-5, s/n 41-6358, of the 405th FG that belly landed on June 23,1944. The pilot, Lt. Walter R. Davis was taken POW. There was a picture of this airplane in the ATB issue on the Channel Islands.
In the book "the German Occupation of Guernsey"[L.P. Sinel], the incident is described:
June 23..."During the morning, an American single-seater fighter came down at St. Ouen 's owing to lack of petrol; the pilot was arrested and the plane put under guard"
Furthermore,
"November 30:...a boat arrived in St. Heliers's Harbour today-from St. Aubins!- and discharged a single-seater American plane which came down some months ago and was to have been shipped to France."
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