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FLEET AIR ARM  AIRCREW TAKING PART IN THE CHANNEL DASH AGAINST GNEISENAU AND SCHARNHORST 1942


825 squadron aircrew

 

825 AIRCREW TAKING PART IN THE CHANNEL DASH AGAINST THE SCHARNHORST AND GNEISENAU 12 FEBRUARY 1942 

Aircrews:

Esmonde, E Lt Cdr (A) DSO RN

 

 

 

Williams, WH Lt RN

 

 

 

Clinton, WJ PO(A)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kingsmill, CM Sub Lt (A) RNVR

 

 

 

Samples, R McC Sub Lt (A) RNVR

 

 

 

Bunce, WJ PO(A)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rose, BW Sub Lt (A) RNVR

 

 

 

Lee, EF Sub Lt (A) RNVR

 

 

 

Johnson, AL PO(A)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomson, JC Lt RN

 

 

 

Wright, EHF Sub Lt (A) RNVR

 

 

 

Tapping, E L/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wood, CR Sub Lt RN

 

 

 

Parkinson, RL Sub Lt (A)

 

 

 

Wheeler, HTA L/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bligh, P Sub Lt RNVR

 

 

 

Beynon, W Sub Lt (A) RNVR

 

 

 

Smith, WG L/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 

FURTHER INFORMATION

 

Manston Spitfire and Hurricane Memorial website

Recollections of the Channel Dash hunting the Scharnhorst

Sturtivant, R. & Burrow, M (1995) 

Sturtivant, R. & Burrow, M (1995)  'Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945'  Published by Air Britain (Historians) Ltd, 1995 ISBN: 0 85130 232 7 

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