'Blackie & Kirk' 406 Sqdn RCAF

[brewerjerry]

Hi,
Pretty sure my first info came from :-
Price, Alfred

BLITZ ON BRITAIN - THE BOMBER ATTACKS ON THE UNITED KINGDOM, 1939-1945

&
It Came to Our Door: Plymouth in World War II ( nice photo of the JU-88 at burrator )

by H.P TWYFORD


then from :-

Aircraft Modelworld Vol 1 No 9 November 1984
Article :- Aircraft modelling - Dornier's missile carrier - Do-217K-2 - scale, great little article on building the a/c.

There is a file in the NA /PRO ( air 22 or the air 40 dornier file, maybe even in an avia ?) the file used to have a photo of the tail cone /guns, but the photo had disappeared by the 80's, when I looked at it again.
and something in the cornish record office and maybe taunton record office.

maybe something in the profile dornier 217 book.

The whitsand bay a/c was stilll to be seen in the early 70's, a/c approaching roborough ccasionally reported seeing a twin engined a/c upside down in the sea, and it appears from research it was probably the dornier.
( the other posible candidate was a wellington, but apparently it made it to the beach in '41 ? and the JU-88 apparantly went down further out.)

The above is from memory tho' as my notes are still packed.

reference to the attack here
by Obgfr. Gerds
http://www.ghostbombers.com/dragoon/before-2.html

You are right it is the Howe,she was in devonport from January-May 1944, (KGV ws in liverpool until july).


Whilst on the subject of the raid,
a SKG10 Fw-190 was supposedly lost anyone know how and where ?


cheers
Jerry


P.S.
Just found a jpeg copy of the crash report on my hard drive.

extract from the Ai2(g) report :-



6N+IT , 'I' yellow, 'T' black.

camouflage.
Apparently intended for aircraft operating over the sea,the undersurfaces being sky blue and the fuselage and top surfaces being a very light blue with light green wavy lines superimposed.




It does not mention smaller code letters,so presumably they were all the same size ?
Jerry