[SteveB]

Better late....etc

I am assuming that people will have followed the link to Leendert's old thread.

The 239Sqn ORB is not very helpful - I transcribed the Form 540 detail into the old thread. Form 541 lists Vaughan in AM239 and Bennett in AM180 "F/O Vaughan and F/O Bennett set course from Fairlop at 1235 hrs to take photographs of lock gates near Ypres. They crossed via Foulness and Ramsgate at 1252 hrs intending to cross the enemy coast near Middlekerk at 1310 hrs. After leaving Manston nothing further was heard and they did not return."

Form 541 does not record any details of the second section.

With regard to the confusion about serials Vaughan was flying AM239 and Bennett AM180. The two other a/c lost that day were AM238 and AP183.

In his PoW Q'aire Bennett gives his place of capture as Veurne in Belgium and, as Leendert has said, Collis records his place of capture as "Dunkirk on 23/7/43".

Steve