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Re: Spitfire pilot's Lost
K9853 of 19 Squadron was damaged in a taxying collision with K9799 at Duxford on 9 July 1940. Names of both pilots unfortunately not noted by me.
L1075 DW*N of 610 Squadron went missing 6 miles off Dover on 8 July 1940. Pilot Officer A. L. B. Raven missing believed killed, victim of return fire from Do17.
N3183 of 54 Squadron I have as Pilot Officer Deere’s aircraft, and L1093 as Pilot Officer Evershed’s both on 9 July 1940. The latter aircraft being ‘struck-off’ a week later on 16 July 1940.
R6688 of 19 Squadron lost on 13 July 1940 was flown by Sergeant R. R. G. Birch and not Lieutenant R. A. Birch FAA.
K9990 of 152 Squadron was reported Category 3 on 31 July 1940, a date I have later amended to 18 July 1940. Pilot Officers I. N. Bayles & C. Warren both returned with damage on the latter date, one of them in P9440. I suspect that the unit may have taken the opportunity to write-off the older airframe after attempting repairs?
According to my notes, extracted from the serial cards back in the 1970s, P9382 of 54 Squadron was reported Category 3 on 25 July 1940 but later ‘struck-off’ on 31 October 1940 while allocated to PRU Heston.
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