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PM-B L5234 of No. 103 Squadron RAF. Bomber crashed on take off on 16 May 1940, as the Betheniville airfield was being evacuated and was abandoned

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  1. Crashed Fairey Battle PM-B L5234 of No. 103 Squadron RAF | World War Photos
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PM-B L5234 of No. 103 Squadron RAF. Bomber crashed on take off on 16 May 1940, as the Betheniville airfield was being evacuated and was abandoned

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  1. Crashed Fairey Battle PM-B L5234 of No. 103 Squadron RAF | World War Photos
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PM-B L5234 of No. 103 Squadron RAF. Bomber crashed on take off on 16 May 1940, as the Betheniville airfield was being evacuated and was abandoned

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Date: Saturday 8 June 1940
Time: day
Type: Silhouette image of generic bttl model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Fairey Battle Mk I
Owner/operator: 103 Sqn RAF
Registration: N2253
MSN: PM-N
Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location: 40 miles north of Rouen, - France
Phase: Combat
Nature: Military
Departure airport: Ouzouer-le-Doyen, France
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Fairey Battle Mk.I N2253 (PM-N) 103 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) when lost (Failed To Return) from combat operations. All three crew survived, but were captured and taken as PoWs. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/841): "Battle N2253 crashed 40 miles north of Rouen, France, 8 June 1940. Sergeant G Beardsley, Temporary Leading Aircraftman G F Lewis and Sergeant G Avery: prisoners of war"

Battle N2253 was airborne from Ozouer-le-Doyen, on a mission to Sainte-Ceronne-les-Mortagne. Damaged by return fire while attacking Ju 87s and crash-landed South of Paris. This was the third time in less than a month that Sergeant Beardsley and his gunner, Leading Aircraftsman Lewis, had been shot down. They had previously been shot down on 14 May 1940 in Battle P2191 and again on May 25 1940 on a mission to Abbeville.

On the two previous occasions they had managed to return to the Squadron. Leading Aircraftsman Lewis had recently been awarded a DFM.

  1. https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/229148
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Date: Friday 23 August 1940
Time: night
Type: Silhouette image of generic bttl model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Fairey Battle Mk I
Owner/operator: 142 Sqn RAF
Registration: L5503
MSN: -
Fatalities: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location: Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais 62 - France
Phase: Combat
Nature: Military
Departure airport: RAF Eastchurch, Kent
Destination airport: RAF Eastchurch, Kent
Narrative:
142 Sqn. Royal Air Force, Fairy Battle L5503 ' QT-L', operating from RAF,Eastchurch, Kent, England was shot down and crashed near Boulogne-sur-Mer, France on the 23rd August 1940, during a night attack on E-Boats at Boulogne-sur-Mer. The three aircrew, Sergeant, L. M. Lowry was killed and Pilot Officer, Alan George Middleton and Royal Navy, Midshipman, Arthur Taylor (attached to the RAF) became a prisoners of war.

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  1. Accident Fairey Battle Mk I L5503, Friday 23 August 1940
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42 Sqn RAF
Registration: L5503

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Fairey Battle bombers P2190, P5238 and Hawker Hurricane P2959. Épernay Plivot Airfield 1940.

Fairey Battle Mk.I P5238 (QT-X) 142 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) on combat operations 19 May 1940. One of the two crew was killed, one was injured. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/564): "Sergeant G H Ebert: injured. Sergeant T Jones: report of death; Battle P5238 in air operations, 19 May 1940"
Battle P5238 was airborne from Faux-Villecerf, France to attack enemy troop columns when it was badly damaged by ground fire (Flak/AAA) over Laon and force landed on Epernay Aerodrome, Plivot, Marne, where it was abandoned. The pilot and the Wireless Op./Air Gunner survived the air combat, but the Observer, Sgt Tom Jones, was severely wounded, and died of his injuries later the same day

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  1. https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/228212
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