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Old 11th June 2018, 19:49
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Re: Hawker Tempest Mk V JN759 3 Sqdn 6 August 1944

Thanks, Alex, have had a lot of help from the library in Pymble etc, so have almost all I can about him, that JN759 was the 30th Tempest produced (starting at JN729) but NOT precisely where it crashed.
The NAA site has 140 odd pages o his record, and includes his paybook which shows signs of charring around the edges, so presumably recovered from the wreckage and which implies a severe fire, if scorched through his uniform......

The strange thing is that most WW2 events were recorded by "someone" locally, not always the same person, but no one knew of this Tempest crash so no idea as to where more specifically than WR1532. It was just 2 months after the D Day mid air of 2 B26's over Battle, one crashed at Ashburnham Place, which is very close by and the Marauders had many eyewitnesses, but none apparently for the Tempest.
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