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Re: Big X's Spitfire
Bushell's aircraft was N3194 and he set fire to it after belly-landing 'just to the east of Boulogne' having got on the wrong end of a Bf110 of II./ZG76. Klipsch fell in the same combat impacting at Wierre-Effroy in P9373 to become subject of the Time Team recovery in 1999. Gillies (N3290) was also shot down in this action, with Paddy Green (N3167) only just making it back to Manston badly wounded. Having already lost Pat Learmond (P9370) over Dunkirk earlier that morning, 23 May 1940 provided a particularly inauspicious introduction to combat for No.92 Squadron. So, no they didn't get it wrong - those involved in the dig are far too experienced & well-informed to trip over such details.
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