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Old 14th May 2006, 15:57
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Re: Spitfire pilot's Lost

Seems the serials are now mostly covered
I just have some comments for Peter.
I also collected much info on my visits to the UK between '64 & '73
There was just so much material, and I had to concentrate on that which related to Australia & New Zealand, most was hand copied, so errors creep in. That said:
Re P9382
I have 27MU -> 1 PRU Benson -> Farnborough for high altitude and fuel system trials and, presumably, returned to 1 PRU with Cat E damage on ops 25.7.40 & SOC 31.10.40 with 113 Airframe Hours - no mention of 54 Sqdn
However
P9387 I have 54 Sqdn s/d by Bf109 nr Dover Pilot Turley-George safe.
(s/d here prob means force landed or similar as the aircraft was repaired and continued in service until a Cat B Flying Acc with 53 OTU, recat E and SOC 20.5.42)

The aircraft flown by Bayles of 152 Sqdn and damaged on 18.7.40. This aircraft returned to base and was repaired whereas K9990 was with 52 Sqdn and was unfortunatelly hit by AA fire from a British convoy and was abandoned off the Isle of Wight on 17.7.40
I have looked at this many times and have not been able to come up with a satisfactory answer to the aircraft flown by Bayles.

Q and A's on forums like this often help us to solve problems, sometimes we end up with more questions than answers !!

Cheers,
Tony W
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