Pilots of No.615 Squadron .

[schnellmeyer]

Can anybody please help me with details and photos of the following two pilots from No.615 Squadron . F/O Rene Mouchotte and Sgt. Hamilton . These two pilots attacked a JU88 off the southwest coast of England on 26 August , 1941 . The JU88 later crash landed in Ireland and the crew were interned .
I would be grateful for any help .

[Col Bruggy]

Hello,

Sgt Hamilton = AUS404076 Sgt Ronald Martin HAMILTON RAAF.

Failed to return from 'Roadstead' off Blankenburge in No.615 Sqn Hurricane IIB BD831, on 18 September, 1941. P/O Hamilton was posted as Missing, and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

Col.

[schnellmeyer]

Many thanks for those details Col. Bruggy , it's a good starting point for me .

[Bertrand H]

And for René Mouchotte (service number 30611):

http://www.ordredelaliberation.fr/fr_compagnon/703.html

Bertrand

[schnellmeyer]

Thank you very much for your help Bertrand , I am most grateful for this information .

[Bruce Lander]

Hi,

Required reading for Rene Mouchotte:-


The Mouchotte Diaries 1940-1943 (Fortunes of War) by Rene Mouchotte and Philip John Stead (24 Aug 2001)

Paperback: 204 pages
Publisher: Cerberus Publishing Ltd; New edition edition (24 Aug 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1841450243
ISBN-13: 978-1841450247

Cheers

Bruce Lander

[schnellmeyer]

Thanks for that extra information Bruce , looks like a book I will have to get for my collection.

[BruceMk11]

This pic is in Ron Hamilton's NAA file:

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp

Bruce

[BruceMk11]

Please disregard the above link. For reasons unknown to myself, it isn't working. But if you can steer your way around the NAA site, Hamilton's file can be viewed and there is a studio pic on page 2.

Bruce

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Schellmeyer,
The book of Mouchotte (The Mouchotte Diaries) is good and written in a more "human" way than most of War Diaries I have read. You won't be disappointed (although it lacks on the Photographs field).
Nº615 Squadron do deserve a good account/book...by the way.
Yours,
Adriano Baumgartner