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[newcomer]

No, it is MiG-3.

kind regards

Newcomer

[Stig Jarlevik]

Originally Posted by newcomer

No, it is MiG-3.

kind regards

Newcomer

Yep
Fits better
Stig

[Faenor]

Hi all,

another Hawker Hurricane Mk. I probably from France 1940:

https://www.ebay.de/itm/374168007343...gAAOSwatFixuAd

Squadron code are slightly visible - GZ - so definetelly 32. Sq.
But which serial number - P2727?

I have another Hurri with marking GZoV, but it looks like different plane.

Any comment is welcome

Faenor

[edwest2]

https://www.ebay.de/itm/385000684084...0AAOSwIDBiy-N1
https://www.ebay.de/itm/354160493871...EAAOSwMPhizHE9
https://www.ebay.de/itm/314068092932...wAAOSwoP1iytxr

[paulmcmillan]

Originally Posted by Faenor

Hi all,

another Hawker Hurricane Mk. I probably from France 1940:

https://www.ebay.de/itm/374168007343...gAAOSwatFixuAd

Squadron code are slightly visible - GZ - so definetelly 32. Sq.
But which serial number - P2727?

I have another Hurri with marking GZoV, but it looks like different plane.

Any comment is welcome

Faenor

- I believe that the photo does show P2727 but according to https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/228832 (i know!!!) - but 2 things inconsistent the Sqn code is V (not F) and fact he forced landed not bailed out code defo P?7?7 and looks like a 2

Hawker Hurricane Mk.I P2727 (GZ-F) 32 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) when lost (failed to return) from a Combat Air Patrol over Dunkirk. Pilot bailed out and survived. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/763): "Hurricane P2527 [*sic] crash landed near Calais, France, 2 June 1940. Sergeant Dermot Flynn: prisoner of war"

Airborne from RF Biggin Hill, Bromley, Kent for a combat air patrol over Dunkirk. Shot down by enemy action (presumed by Flak/AAA, as no enemy claims made for this aircraft in air to air combat). Crew into the sea off Calais; pilot bailed out, and survived, but was captured, and taken as a PoW

Crew of Hurricane P2727:
Sergeant Dermot Flynn (pilot, #520659); bailed out, survived, captured, and became a PoW. Interned at PoW camp 357 (Kopernikus) as PoW no. 68

Also see

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=3586

[Stig Jarlevik]

Originally Posted by paulmcmillan

- I believe that the photo does show P2727 but according to https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/228832 (i know!!!) - but 2 things inconsistent the Sqn code is V (not F) and fact he forced landed not bailed out code defo P?7?7 and looks like a 2

Hawker Hurricane Mk.I P2727 (GZ-F) 32 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) when lost (failed to return) from a Combat Air Patrol over Dunkirk. Pilot bailed out and survived. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/763): "Hurricane P2527 [*sic] crash landed near Calais, France, 2 June 1940. Sergeant Dermot Flynn: prisoner of war"

Airborne from RF Biggin Hill, Bromley, Kent for a combat air patrol over Dunkirk. Shot down by enemy action (presumed by Flak/AAA, as no enemy claims made for this aircraft in air to air combat). Crew into the sea off Calais; pilot bailed out, and survived, but was captured, and taken as a PoW

Crew of Hurricane P2727:
Sergeant Dermot Flynn (pilot, #520659); bailed out, survived, captured, and became a PoW. Interned at PoW camp 357 (Kopernikus) as PoW no. 68

Looks very much like P2727.
I wonder from where the code GZ-F comes from?
None of the listed sources have such a code, only GZ-?
Since I only have Franks' book in the first edition, I don't know if there is such a code in the 2nd one.
Only problem seems to be if the pilot bailed out or not.
It certainly looks like a pilot has had some kind of control when making the landing we can see...

Cheers
Stig

[marco392]

Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik

Looks very much like P2727.
I wonder from where the code GZ-F comes from?
None of the listed sources have such a code, only GZ-?
Since I only have Franks' book in the first edition, I don't know if there is such a code in the 2nd one.
Only problem seems to be if the pilot bailed out or not.
It certainly looks like a pilot has had some kind of control when making the landing we can see...

Cheers
Stig

I have a photo with a different shot of this plane. The upper part of the numbers is visible. I am 99% sure the number is P2727

Mariusz

[Martin Gleeson]

Re. Hurricane P2727.

I have the AIR 81/763 personnel casualty file for Sgt. Dermot Flynn, lost on 2 June 1940. There is almost nothing in it about the circumstances of his loss, except for his POW Questionnaire of May 1945 but even this has almost no detail.
Under the line "Did you bale out, crash, force-land, ditch or get blown out ?" he wrote 'Crash land'. For the location he gave 'near Calais' and that he was made a prisoner the same day. He also wrote 'Hurricane Z' for his aircraft, but this is probably an understandable mistake after five years !

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Martin.