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24th September 2026, 14:59
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Photo Recce Mission 8 Oct 41
Can anyone confirm that a photo recce Spitfire was active off Brest on the late afternoon of 8 Oct 41?
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24th September 2026, 16:56
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Re: Photo Recce Mission 8 Oct 41
Hi Chris.
From AIR-27-2015. "B" Flt. No.1 PRU / 541 Sqn. Appendix. Oct. 8. F/O Acott (N3111) to Brest 1350--1500. From St. Eval. N3111 also to Brest on the 9th.; P/O Anderson 1240--1400, F/O Morgan 1500--1640. Regards Nick
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24th September 2026, 17:14
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Re: Photo Recce Mission 8 Oct 41
Thanks Nick. Looks like 43473 William Ronald Acott. I have a mention in a German logbook that this German pilot attempted to intercept at 9000m over the sea north of Brest
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25th September 2026, 09:58
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Re: Photo Recce Mission 8 Oct 41
Confirm it was Acott. His landing time was actually 15:50.
He photographed Brest port, the Rade, Goulet and all of the A/Ds and SPBs from 29,000ft. The images of the port showed the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen.
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25th September 2026, 10:53
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Re: Photo Recce Mission 8 Oct 41
Thanks Andy. German pilot in question was Lt Leopold Wenger of 2./JG 2 who took off from Brest-Nord at 1601 and landed 1635hrs
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25th September 2026, 12:04
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Re: Photo Recce Mission 8 Oct 41
Mean time of photography was about 15:10 so allowing for 1hr time difference it fits well. Guipavas A/D (Brest/Nord) was the first target covered with Acott carrying another run over the same location on the way home.
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25th September 2026, 18:50
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Re: Photo Recce Mission 8 Oct 41
2 rather nice recce photos from 1PRU Spitfires in 1941 in Brest. Both Battlecruisers in port .
Nick https://218squadron.wordpress.com/wp...st-595x562.jpg https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.a.../document/1498
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27th September 2026, 12:26
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Re: Photo Recce Mission 8 Oct 41
Though couldn't leave port until Feb. 42. This is a closer view presumably from 1 PRU, "Prinz Eugen" is moored to left. From the Air Ministry account of Bomber Command to July 1941 which dates the photo roughly. Also shot of N3111 in pale pink low-level scheme, grey details.
 brest1941 by Nicholas King, on Flickrhttps://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attach...03-jpg.383700/ Regards Nick
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27th September 2026, 15:36
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Re: Photo Recce Mission 8 Oct 41
There are a number of such photos floating around-I have two in my Channel Dash book. Quite an effort from Bomber Command and PRU over 11 months
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