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Date: | Sunday 2 June 1940 |
Time: | |
Type: | Gloster Gladiator Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 263 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N5914 |
MSN: | - |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Lille Haugefjellet, 12 miles East of Narvik, -
Norway
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Bardufoss Airfield, Troms og Finnmark county, Norway |
Destination airport: | - |
Narrative:263 Sqn. Royal Air Force, Gladiator N5914, one of two on patrol from Bardufoss Airfield over Narvik/Bjørnfjell, Norway, was shot down east of Rombaksfjorden by Messerschmitt Me 110 flown by Leutnant, Helmut Lent of of I./ZG 76.
The aircraft crashed in the mountains at Lille Haugefjellet 12 miles East of Narvik, killing Pilot Officer, James Leon Wilkie.
Some sources give N5893 as registration albeit incorrect.
The wreckage was recovered in 1998 for the reconstruction of N5914 at the Gloucestershire Aviation Collection Jet Age Museum, Staverton, Gloucestershire, UK.
Sources:
Gladiator Narvik (tihlde.org)
Aircraft (jetagemuseum.org)
James Wilkie | TheyServed Wiki | Fandom
WILKIE James Leon 42170 - Highgate RSL (highgate-rsl.org.au)
James Leon Wilkie, died in Norway 2 June 1940 | Wings Over New Zealand (proboards.com)
The History Journal - Gladiator
https://www.flyvrak.info/lillehaugfjell.html (N5893)
Fighter Command Losses of the Second World Ware Volume 1 (Norman L R Franks) (N5893)
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Dec-2020 16:16 |
Peter Clarke |
Added |
08-Dec-2020 17:48 |
Lelek |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
29-Jun-2024 16:55 |
MMR |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |