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12.04.1942 No 71 Squadron (Eagle) Spitfire Vb AB810 P/O Mays

Location: South East of St. Omer, France.

Newspaper article. (David King collection)

1942-04-11T22:00:00+00:00

24.04.1942 No.266 Squadron RAF Typhoon R7654 P/O Allen

Location: Nr Great Casterton, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.

1942-04-23T22:00:00+00:00

03.05.1942 No. 418 Squadron R.C.A.F Boston III W8340 P/O. Whitfield

Location: R.A.F. West Malling. Kent.

Sister aircraft to W8340 - Boston III from 418 Squadron (Society Archives)

1942-05-02T22:00:00+00:00

06.05.1942 No.16 O.T.U. (Operational Training Unit) Hampden I AD826 F/Sgt Maxwell

Location: Bourne End Farm, Wootton, Bedfordshire, England.

Handley Page Hampden Mark I, AE148 'XG-Y', of No, 16 O.T.U. based at Upper Heyford, in flight,
piloted by the unit's chief instructor, Wing Commander W. C. Sheen (A.R.S. archive)

1942-05-05T22:00:00+00:00

01.06.1942 No.350 Squadron R.A.F. (Belgian) Spitfire Vb BL822 F/Sgt. Livyns.

Location: Missing off Ostend.

1942-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

01/02.06.1942 10 Squadron Halifax II L9623 P/O Edward Ronald Senior.

Location: North Sea – Dutch coast.

Sgt. John Coller (Courtesy Virginia McCammom and Jualene Tapp)

1942-06-01T22:00:00+00:00

24.06.1942 No.23 O.T.U. Wellington IC L7891 F/Sgt MacDonald

Location: Waterstock, W of Tiddington, Oxfordshire, England.

1942-06-23T22:00:00+00:00

04.07.1942 No. 13 O.T.U. (Operational Training Unit) Blenheim IV R3912 Pilto S. Anderson.

Location: Pawlett Hams, Somerset, England.

This crash site was excavated by Mr Tim Hake on the 14th July 2007, assisted and researched by David King, and Melvin Brownless from theAircrew Remembrance Society, also Herr Rudiger Kaufmann, chairman of the Museumsverein f¸r Technik- und Luftfahrtgeschichtee.V, Dalldorf,Germany.

1942-07-03T22:00:00+00:00

28.07.1942 No.129 Squadron RAF Spitfire VB BL596 F/Lt Bowman

Location: In Sea off the French Coast.

Fl/Lt Bowman with Spitfire (courtesy I.W.M.)

1942-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

30.07.1942 No.154 Squadron RAF Spitfire VB BM194 P/O Hurt

Location: Near St.Omer, France.

Luftwaffe personnel remove the body of Ted on a stretcher, the cows look on.

1942-07-29T22:00:00+00:00

01.08.1942 No.25 OTU Operational Training Unit Wellington IC DV439 F/LtWelch

Location: Wemeldinge, Zeeland, Netherlands.

August 2nd 1942, a picture of the aircraft which made a very good landing under the circumstances (Jolie)

1942-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

13/14.09.1942 No. 11 O.T.U Vickers Wellington Ic X3169 F/O Dickenson.

Location: Lingen. Germany.

F/O. Michael Edward Scott Dickenson second right with other crew members when P.O.W.s

1942-09-13T23:00:00+00:00

06.10.1942 No.285 Squadron Defiant I AA297 F/O Davidson

Location: Near R.A.F. Station, Calveley, Cheshire, England.

1942-10-05T23:00:00+00:00

06.11.1942. No. 13 O.T.U. Blenheim IV. R3874. Sgt Blackshire.

Location: 2 to 3 miles North West of R.A.F. Bicester, Oxfordshire, England.

1942-11-05T23:00:00+00:00

18.11.1942 21 O.T.U. RAF Wellington Ic T2574 Sgt. Jones

Location: Between Liss and Longmoor, Hampshire, England.

(Left) An unidentified crew prepare for a mission in front of their Wellington aircraft. (Top right) Ground crew load leaflets into the bomb bay
of a Vickers Wellington, in preparation for a Nickel raid. (Bottom right) Examples of leaflets dropped over France during World War 2 (I.W.M.)

1942-11-17T23:00:00+00:00

08.12.1942 No.21 O.T.U. (Operational Training Unit) Wellington IC DV425 Sgt Drew

Location: High Furze, Tidmington, Warwickshire, England.

1942-12-07T23:00:00+00:00

29.12.1942. Squadron and Unit unknown, R.A.F., P.O.W. in Japan. F/Lt. Acland

Location: Tokyo Japan.

RAF reinforcements gathered at a transit camp in Singapore, following the Japanese invasion of Malaya. These men would soon be made P.O.W.’s. Many of them like F/Lt. Simon John Dyke Acland would not survive their incarceration or return home.

1942-12-28T23:00:00+00:00

31.12.1942 No.83 PFF Sqdn. Lancaster I W4799 P/O Jackson

Location: Between Demen and Ravenstein, The Netherlands.

Right: Fl/Sgt. Les Brettle (via Brettle).

1942-12-30T23:00:00+00:00

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