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Re: info needed on Anson crashes - L7905 and N5205
Danny,
I note that you asked for info on L7905 and N5205, which makes me think you can't read the photo very well.
Also, 220 Sqn did not operate Ansons in 1940. They converted to Hudsons in November 1939, so the photo must have been taken in the last months of 1939, when 220 Sqn was using its wartime code NR- (it used HU- and PK- during the pre-war period)
Looking at all the candidate ___05s (ie those delivered by the end of 1939, so N9905 would be the highest), only one had known service with 220 Sqn. This was K6205, but this was lost in Oct 37, long before the NR- code came into use.
The only two immediately obvious (to me) losses in the Sep/Dec 1939 period were:
K6152 DBR 13.10.39 (overshot landing at Catterick)
K6202 NR-E DBR 25.9.39 (overshot landing at Thornaby) - SOC 22.11.39 (code confirmed by ORB)
So maybe NR-N was indeed not badly damaged.
Andy
PS Like all the Ansons supplied to Greece at that time, N5205 had no service with the RAF.
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