Re: Two 82 Squadron Blenheims damaged on ops 8-9 May 1941
Hello,
Unfortunately, neither of these airmen survived much longer:
1/
21 May 1941
No.82 Sqn
Blenheim IV Z6165
Op: Delivery Flight
Took off Portreath for Malta, but crashed into the Mediterranean 12km N of Gouraya, Algeria. The dead are commemorated on the Alamein Memorial*.
580332 F/Sgt Leslie Howard WRIGHTSON RAF +
88696 P/O Kenneth Granville Anderson MARSH RAFVR + (CWGC + 23/5/1941)
641331 F/Sgt Clifford George EVANS RAF +
* The three airmen named above are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, not the Alamein Memorial.
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11 June 1941
No.82 Sqn
Blenheim IV Z6426
Op: Anti-shipping
Took off Luqa to attack a convoy S of Pantelleria. Hit by flak from the MV's "Tembier" (Italian) and "Wachtfels" (German), the Blenheim hit the mast of the "Tembien", and crashed into the sea in flames. All are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
33337 S/L Michael Litchfield WATSON RAF +
85014 P/O Nigel Clinton ALERS-HANKEY RAFVR +
538193 Sgt Kenneth Mossman POOLE RAF +
See:
Royal Air Force Bomber Losses in the Middle East and Mediterranean Vol.1 1939-1942.
Gunby,David & Pelham Temple
Hinckley:Midland Publishing,2006
1/p.61, 2/p.67
Col.
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