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Date: | Wednesday 6 September 1939 |
Time: | 06:15 |
Type: | Hawker Hurricane Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 56 (Punjab) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | L1980 |
MSN: | LR-C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Minor |
Location: | near Ipswich, Suffolk, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF North Weald, Essex |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Hawker Hurricane L1980/C: First Hurricane with De Havilland 3-blade Variable Pitch airscrew. Written off (destroyed) 06/09/1939: One of two Hurricanes shot down by 74 Squadron Spitfires from Hornchurch in the so-called "Battle of Barking Creek".
Crew:
P/O (39901) Frank Charles ROSE (pilot) RAF- was uninjured.
The Spitfire pilots were court-martialled, but it was decided that there was no case to answer. L1980 was repaired but lost when HMS Glorious was sunk on the 8th of June 1940,
Flt/Off FRANK CHARLES ROSE (39901) was killed in action over Vitry-en-Artois, France on 18/05/1940.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 14)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/6:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14141985 3.
https://www.worldnavalships.com/directory/airframeprofile.php?FrameID=23546 4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Barking_Creek 5.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/70/a5781170.shtml 6.
http://blitzwalkers.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-battle-of-barking-creek.html 7. THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, September 7, 1939:
http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/564274 8.
http://ww2today.com/the-first-british-pilot-is-shot-down-in-the-battle-of-barking-creek Revision history:
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