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Re: PRU Mosquito captured/given to the Germans ca 1943
James,
Yes, it is DZ466 from an old thread down here:
20Feb43 F/O Payne and Sgt Kent 540 Sqn (Mosquito DZ466) took off from Benson to make a photographic reconnaissance of Vienna and Linz area but failed to return.
They landed at St Brieuc area..there are a lot of photographs from this plane on the net.
Are you SURE the pilot landed without troubles or mechanical problems? I communicated with a former 540 Squadron member that had engine problems and had to bail out. It seems that, PERHAPS, on this case ( DZ466 ) it was the best solution: to land on a beach, instead of bailing out over the North Sea and die of exposure, isn't it? I do not know the reasons...but we could find out the truth.
Did your father obtained a copy of German interrogatory of F/O Payne? Perhaps only this document can inform us if he deliberetaly landed on the beach...do not know, tough!
Yours,
Adriano Baumgartner
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