Looking for Photos & Eye-Witness accounts of wipe out of Fairey Battle Recon Formation over Western Front on 30.09.39

[paulmcmillan]

Larry


Try
http://www.flugzeugabstuerze-saarlan...html#Dudweiler



Paul

[Larry Hickey]

Paul,

That worked. Thanx. So now we know more details of the Battle and its crew that crashed in Germany on 30 Sept 1939, and the photo of the funeral. Don't know if it will be reproducible.

Now if we can find some similar material on the crashes that happened in France, with detailed locations, and hopefully some photos of the crash sites. Still no reference material for 150 SQ Battles from this period for creating a Color Profile. However, important progress. Persistence pays off.

Regards,

Larry Hickey
EoE Project Coordinator

[ClausL]

Larry,

Found this http://www.hambo.org/lancing/view_man.php?id=69 on F/O Hyde Parker.

There is a picture of him and an extract from an interview with AC1 Jones.

Hope this can help you

Regards

Luc

[Larry Hickey]

clausL,

Thanx for the website reference. We had part of that material, but some of it gives additional information on the care of two of these men at the French convent, and their return to England to recuperate from their burns and injuries. We still don't know exact locations where some of the Battle crewmen landed, including these two, and exactly where their planes crashed. I would also like to know the name and location of the convent where these men were cared for before their repatriation to Britain, as well as more precisely where their parachutes landed them, and the place where their planes crashed.

Can anyone else help? The bits and pieces of this action continue to come together. The holy grail would be to find photos at the crash sites of all five Battles, and photos of the men either immediately before, or shortly after the mission, even if in a hospital bed somewhere. If all of this continues to come together I'd like to have color profiles of one of the German Bf109s and one of the Battles that were shot down or crashed, a small map of the action, including where the planes crashed and the parachutists landed, and all the supportive photography possible of the people involved. We've got good photos of the German pilots who scored that day, and a color profile of one of their aircraft, but not yet comprehensive coverage on the British side, although the accounts from the airmen are shaping up rather well.

Regards,

Larry Hickey
EoE Project Coordinator