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[Col Bruggy]

Hello,

Quite a bit of misinformation published about the loss of No.83 Sqn Hampden I P4340 on 12/13 August, 1940. Here are the pilot's (40050 A/F/L Allen Roy MULLIGAN RAF), own words:

F/Lt A. R. Mulligan - Sydney, Australia - Pilot - "Hampden" - Night of 12/13 August 1940.

"Low level attack on the Dortmund-Ems Canal - went in No.2 at 50 feet. Light flak and mgs set starboard engine on fire - climbed to about 400 feet. Port engine vibrating badly and aileron controls U/S. Managed to stop a flat spin and then crash landed in a field. Burning starboard engine torn out of mainplane. Navigator & W/Op killed. Airscrew from port engine came through side of cockpit pinning me in. Port engine caught fire - flames increased for a short time - then went out.

Goons arrived but I could not be released until airscrew was removed which took 4 and-a-half hours - but there was no hurry they could have taken 4 years!"

(Signed) A. R. Mulligan, Sagan, August, 1944.

See:
Tales from the Sagan Woods.
Gould, A. H. DFC (40692, RAF - 61 Sqn. POW 20/21 June, 1940)
Bundanoon(NSW):Author,1994.
pp.8 (& p.57 of Gould's POW Journal, reproduced in this ref).

Col.