BCL Look-up, 17 Sep 1941

[Steve Brew]

Could someone with BCL please advise me of the aircraft identification and crew (with fates) for a 2 Group Blenheim hit by Flak, which went into the Channel approximately 2 miles off the French coast between Boulogne and Hardelot, on return from Circus 95 to Mazingarbe on 17 September 1941?

Thanks
Steve

[davew]

Steve,

Only one Blenheim loss on this day. V6086 UX-X of 82 Squadron Harper CJ, Patterson JB and Bartrip DA all killed. Chorley does not say whether their bodies were recovered or not.

DaveW

[jossleclercq]

Hello Steve

From BCL 1941 : Blenheim IV V6086 UX-X of No. 82 Sqn, P/O C.J. HARPER, P/O J.B. PATTERSON and Sgt D.A. BARTRIP, all KIA during circus 95, take off from Bodney at 1305 to attack a power station and chemical complex at Mazingarbe.

No other detail in the book.

HTH

Joss

[Steve Brew]

Thanks Dave, thanks Joss; just what I was after

Regards
Steve