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5th July 2012, 21:08
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Hurricane Loss - 29 October 1940, Wallington, Hants
Recent posts led me to search out Alexander McKee's diary notes from 1940. I thought he may have made reference to the 607 Squadron Hurricane losses on 5 October 1940 but find this is unrelated.
The date given is 29 October 1940, afternoon. He saw a Hurricane going down and raced to the scene in a ploughed field on the outskirts of Wallington. He describes the bullet-holed Hurricane tipped up on its nose, wheels retracted, and bearing the code letters AJ-A [sic]. I can only conclude he either mistook AK for AJ, unless the letter got changed in error when he typed up, post war, his handwritten notes. I can only conclude that this must have been 213 Squadron, and perhaps V6868? AK-A? If so, who was the pilot? McKee talks about the injured pilot being taken away by ambulance, but there are no more clues. One for Peter Cornwell? 
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