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[Martin Gleeson]

Stig,

Regarding the crashes on May 7th the 87 Squadron Operational Record Book is basically useless. The April and May 1940 sections were lost in France. A narrative report for May 1940 was written up sometime after the unit returned to England. It has many errors and omissions.

For Master N7545 my sources were the AIR 81/2068 casualty file and the French Mission to the AASF report mentioned by Bertrand above and courtesy of him. There is no Form 1180 accident report card for this incident.
For Hurricane P2540 I used the AIR 81/2067 casualty file, the Form 1180 aircraft accident report, the same French report as above and the AIR 35/138 'Flying Accidents and Forced Landings in France 1939-1940' file at Kew in London.
Also the 4 R&SU ORB (AIR 29/802) for both.

Nos. 1-3 Salvage and Repair Section units are not recorded in the Air-Britain book you refer to (2nd edition), though Nos. 4-6 Repair and Salvage Units are. However no mention is made of the fact that all three resulted from the renaming of established units already in France. These three R&SUs (4-6) were all dedicated to the AASF.
No records appear to have survived for Nos. 1-3 R&SUs or their predecessor units if any. These served the Air Component but I cannot tell you much beyond that.

Regards,

Martin.