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Old 13th February 2009, 20:52
Mikkel Plannthin Mikkel Plannthin is offline
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LAFONT: Aviateurs de la liberté

Anyone with this book on the shelve who could tell if it has any information on Antoine WINTHER apart from name, number and date of death.

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Old 14th February 2009, 13:06
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Re: LAFONT: Aviateurs de la liberté

Antoine Winther
Born on 27 August 1921 at Paris (XVe)

Student pilot at the "Ecole de Pilotage n° 27" (Pilot School n°27), Antoine Winther didn't accept French defeat and with several other students of this school managed to board the Arandora Star, sent by the British government to evacuate Polish soldiers from France in June 1940. He arrived in Liverpool on 29 June, joined the FAFL and restarted training in the RAF schools.

He was killed in a night take-off accident while being a member of 59 OTU at Crosby-on-Eden. The aircraft type or serial are not listed by the book.
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Old 14th February 2009, 15:53
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Re: LAFONT: Aviateurs de la liberté

Laurent,
Thank you very much for this piece of information. I have the date as 12.12.41 so it must be possible to combine this with a 59 OTU crash.

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Re: LAFONT: Aviateurs de la liberté

It was in Sept 1941 NOT Dec - can't remember day
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Re: LAFONT: Aviateurs de la liberté

Thanks for this correction Paul.

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Re: LAFONT: Aviateurs de la liberté

12/9/41So may be12.9.41 Hurricane I V7251 59 OTU Warwick Bridge, Cumberland Dived in ground
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