AIR81/16891 Beaufort I DE124

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AIR81/16891 Beaufort I DE124.

Pilot Officer A. L. Bell (RCAF), Warrant Officer V. B. Schneider (RCAF), Sergeant W. V. Jones, Sergeant R. Jones: missing now safe. Beaufort DE124, 5 Operational Training Unit, aircraft failed to return from an operational flight over Tangier, Morocco, 06 August 1942.

https://www.rafcommands.com/database...php?uniq=DE124

Think not!

Beaufort I DE124
1 OADU
Missing from ferry flight, Portreath-Gibraltar 31.7.42.
See:
RAF Aircraft DA100 to DZ999.
Halley, James J.
Staplefield:Air-Britain(Historians),2008.
p.10

Beaufort IA DE124
1 OADU
Missing between Portreath and Gibraltar, 31.7.42.
See:
The Beaufort File.
Hayward, Roger.
Tonbridge:Air-Britain(Historians),1990.
p.54.

An explanation of what actually happened can be read here:

Back From Internment, Airman To Lose Beard,
Globe and Mail 02/01/1943.
https://collections.museedelhistoire...hp?irn=5077959 (download)

Col.