10th March 2008, 16:06
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 615
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Re: What unit escorted the Ju 88 R "defection"?
Hello again, my friend... 
Found the undernoted information at the undernoted address. Even I didn't know we had 165 (Ceylon) Squadron up here in Scotland... what little gems of information one acquires in life... ! (lol) Hope it's useful to you.
The Ju88 was eventually intercepted by aircraft from No.165 (Ceylon) Squadron, flying Spitfire VBs from Peterhead with a detachment at Dyce airfield near Aberdeen. Blue section - 22 year old American, the late Flt Lt (later Sqn Ldr) Arthur Ford `Art' Roscoe DFC in BM515 (blue 1, who passed away 12 March 2006) and Canadian Sgt B R S Scamen (Blue 2) in AB921 were scrambled form Dyce at 1750 with orders to intercept an unidentified aircraft.
www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/collections/aircraft/aircraft_histories/78-AF-953%20Junkers%20Ju88%20R1.pdf
Regards... 
ObdL3945
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