Re: 1940 Hurricane loss photograph - France
According to "Twelve Days in May", on 22 May 40 605 Sqn lost 2 Hurricanes in engagements with Me109s followed by a further 2 Hurricanes hit by return fire from 3 He111s in the vicinity of Arras, one pilot being killed and the other force-landed.
"Air Battle Dunkirk" provides details of the following 605 Sqn losses:
26 May - P/O Muirhead baled out (so HE-T is clearly not his aircraft).
27 May - F/O Forbes seen to go down near Poperinghe which is southeast of Dunkirk and thus cannot be the "Hurri on a beach" in the original pic. Later that same day, S/L Perry and P/O Danielson were lost (although locations were not identified).
On 28 May, 605 Sqn was withdrawn to Drem to regroup (they'd lost 6 pilots killed, one taken prisoner and one (Muirhead) missing since joining the fray a week earlier).
Dunno whether any of this helps very much...
KR
Mark
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